Facile synthesis of a dual-phase CsPbBr₃-CsPb₂Br₅ single crystal and its photoelectric performance

The emerging metal-halide perovskites are promising for next generation optoelectronic devices. Recently, all-inorganic halide perovskites have been developed and show significantly improved stability compared with organic-inorganic hybrid halide perovskites. Here, we report a facile method based on the coffee ring effect of solvents to synthesize dual-phase CsPbBr₃-CsPb₂Br₅ single crystal microsheets for the first time. The prepared dual-phase CsPbBr₃-CsPb₂Br₅ single crystal is composed of a tetragonal crystalline phase of CsPb₂Br₅ and a monoclinic phase of CsPbBr₃ according to X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns. The sharp XRD peaks indicate the high crystallinity of the as-synthesized dual-phase CsPbBr₃-CsPb₂Br₅ microsheets. CsPbBr₃ is mainly distributed on the edge of the microsheets based on photoluminescence (PL) mapping images. Besides, a photodetector based on the dual-phase CsPbBr₃-CsPb₂Br₅ microsheets exhibits good performance with a high on/off photocurrent ratio of 300 and a photoresponsivity of 2.68 mA W^-1. The rise and decay times of the CsPbBr₃-CsPb₂Br₅ microsheet photodetector are around 25.3 ms and 29.6 ms, respectively. The experimental results indicate that the dual-phase CsPbBr₃-CsPb₂Br₅ microsheet could be a good candidate for the fabrication of high-performance micro photodetectors compatible with practical applications.