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A self-powered organolead halide perovskite single crystal photodetector driven by a DVD-based triboelectric nanogenerator

  • Huajing Fang
  • , Qiang Li
  • , Jie Ding
  • , Nan Li
  • , He Tian
  • , Lijing Zhang
  • , Tianling Ren
  • , Jiyan Dai
  • , Liduo Wang
  • , Qingfen Yan*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Organolead halide perovskites have attracted extensive attention as light harvesting materials for optoelectronic devices due to their high charge carrier mobility, high photoconversion efficiency, and long charge diffusion length. In this study, we present the first self-powered organolead halide perovskite single crystal photodetector driven by a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG). A high-performance planar photodetector showing a responsivity of 7.92 A W-1 to white light under a bias of 4 V was fabricated on the (100) facet of a bulk CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite single crystal. Furthermore, we demonstrate a cost-effective approach to the fabrication of a drum-shaped TENG by using two used digital versatile discs (DVDs), which could generate a high output of up to 200 V and 55 μA. By integrating the CH3NH3PbI3 single crystal photodetector with the TENG, the self-powered device exhibited a large responsivity of 196 V (mW cm-2)-1 and a wide detection range from 10 μW cm-2 to 100 mW cm-2. These results provide a new strategy for driving the organolead halide perovskite photodetector with the energy harvested from the environment rather than an external power supply.

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)630-636
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Materials Chemistry C
Volume4
Issue number3
Online published9 Nov 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2016
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016.

Funding

This research was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under Grant No. 2013CB632900, the National Science Foundation of China (No. 51173097 and 91333109) and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University strategic project (No. 1-ZVCG). The Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program and the Open Research Fund Program of the State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics (No. KF201516) are acknowledged for partial financial support.

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