Suppressing Auger Recombination of Perovskite Quantum Dots for Efficient Pure-Blue-Light-Emitting Diodes

It is a big challenge to achieve pure-blue (≤470 nm) perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) with high efficiency and stability. Here, we report pure-blue (electroluminescence at 469 nm) PeLEDs with a full width at half-maximum of 21 nm, high external quantum efficiency of 10.3%, luminance of 12 060 cd m–2, and continuous operation half-life of 25 h, representing the state-of-the-art performance. This design is based on strongly quantum confined CsPbBr3 quantum dots (QDs) with suppression of Auger recombination, which was enabled by inorganic ligands, replacing initial organic ligands on the QDs. The inorganic ligand acts as a “capacitor” to alleviate the charge accumulation and reduce the exciton binding energy of the QDs, which suppresses the Auger recombination, resulting in much lower efficiency roll-off of PeLEDs. Thus, the devices maintain high efficiency (>10%) at high luminance (>2000 cd m–2), which is of considerable significance for the display application.