Strategic Compositional Engineering in Quasi-2D Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskites to Decipher Deep Blue Emission

Perovskites have achieved immense progression in optoelectronic device applications owing to their fascinating intrinsic properties. However, the integration of perovskites in lighting applications has been retarded due to the challenges involved in achieving their deep blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Unlike other color counterparts, obtaining a stable, defect-tolerant, and high-band gap perovskite material for deep blue emission is an arduous task. Moreover, the ambient stability and efficient charge injection in the device are bottlenecks for the established perovskite emissive materials. Among all the dimensional perovskite counterparts, quasi-two-dimensional perovskites (Q2DPes) with hydrophobic ligands can exhibit better stability, and also, facile tunability of the properties can overcome the associated challenges. In this paper, for the first time, we demonstrate Ruddlesden-Popper-based Q2DPes that are pure deep blue emissive in the 450 nm region, stable, and can facilitate decent charge injection in LEDs. We have also demonstrated systematic modulations in the properties of the material, concerning the organic cation concentration.