Spheroidal Cesium Lead Chloride-Bromide Quantum Dots and a Fast Determination of Their Size and Halide Content

Lead halide perovskite (LHP) quantum dots (QDs), with their bright and narrow emission, are promising candidates for LEDs, lasers, and quantum light sources. However, current methods to synthesize monodisperse CsPb(Cl:Br)₃ and CsPbCl₃ QDs exhibiting multiple sharp absorption resonances are not as well developed compared to CsPbBr₃. Furthermore, both quantum confinement and the halide ratio in CsPb(Cl:Br)₃ QDs strongly influence the bandgap, making it impossible to optically determine their size. In this work, monodisperse spheroidal CsPb(Cl:Br)₃ QDs are synthesized in the 4-10 nm range, at any Cl:Br ratio, with up to five excitonic absorption transitions. Furthermore, in situ spectroscopy was used to cross-correlate the size and composition of these QDs directly to the energy of the first two excitonic absorption transitions. This work therefore provides not only a method for monodisperse CsPb(Cl:Br)₃ QDs but also a protocol to determine their size, concentration, and halide ratio, circumventing conventional expensive and time-consuming techniques.