Highly Oriented Thin Films of 2D Ruddlesden-Popper Hybrid Perovskite toward Superfast Response Photodetectors

2D hybrid perovskites have shown great promise in the photodetection field, due to their intriguing attributes stemming from unique structural architectures. However, the great majority of detectors based on this 2D system possess a relatively low response speed (≈ms), making it extremely urgent to develop new candidates for superfast photodetection. Here, a new organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite, (PA)₂ (FA)Pb₂ I₇ (EFA, where PA is n-pentylaminium and FA is formamidine), which features the 2D Ruddlesden-Popper type perovskite framework that is composed of the corner-sharing PbI₆ octahedra is reported. Significantly, photodetectors fabricated on highly oriented thin films, which exhibit a perfect orientation parallel to 2D inorganic perovskite layers, exhibit a superfast response time up to ≈2.54 ns. To the best of the knowledge, this figure-of-merit catches up with that of the top-ranking commercial materials, and sets a new record for 2D hybrid perovskite photodetectors. Moreover, extremely high photodetectivity (≈1.73 × 10¹⁴ Jones, under an incident power intensity of ≈46 µW cm^-2 ), considerable switching ratios (>10³ ), and low dark current (≈10 pA) are also achieved in the detector, indicating its great potential for high-efficiency photodetection. These results shed light on the possibilities to explore new 2D candidates for assembling future high-performance optoelectronic devices.