Improving the performance of ultra-flexible perovskite photodetectors through cation engineering

摘要： High performance ultra-flexible lightweight perovskite photodetectors hold promising applications on arbitrary substrates include unmanned aerial vehicles. Herein, we report a facile method to improve the performances of perovskite photodetectors on flexible ultrathin (50 μm) polyimide substrates by tuning the composition with different ratios of cations. In the presence of lead thiocyanate, a certain amount of formamidinium introduction could sufficiently enhance the methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite film quality with prolonged carrier lifetime. Perovskite photodetector with response time of ton=89 ms and toff=47 ms is achieved with a very simple device architecture. In addition, our flexible photodetectors maintain good performances after rigorous folding and bending, demonstrating excellent mechanical properties, which can be very useful for a variety of applications.