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Hot‐Pressed CsPbBr3 Quasi‐Monocrystalline Film for Sensitive Direct X‐ray Detection

Weicheng Pan, Bo Yang, Guangda Niu, K. Xue, Xinyuan Du, Lixiao Yin, Muyi Zhang, Haodi Wu et al.

Advances in Materials, 2019

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Abstract

An X‐ray detector with high sensitivity would be able to increase the generated signal and reduce the dose rate; thus, this type of detector is beneficial for applications such as medical imaging and product inspection. The inorganic lead halide perovskite CsPbBr3 possesses relatively larger density and a higher atomic number in contrast to its hybrid counterpart. Therefore, it is expected to provide high detection sensitivity for X‐rays; however, it has rarely been studied as a direct X‐ray detector. Here, a hot‐pressing method is employed to fabricate thick quasi‐monocrystalline CsPbBr3 films, and a record sensitivity of 55 684 µC Gyair−1 cm−2 is achieved, surpassing all other X‐ray detectors (direct and indirect). The hot‐pressing method is simple and produces thick quasi‐monocrystalline CsPbBr3 films with uniform orientations. The high crystalline quality of the CsPbBr3 films and the formation of self‐formed shallow bromide vacancy defects during the high‐temperature process result in a large µτ product and, therefore, a high photoconductivity gain factor and high detection sensitivity. The detectors also exhibit relatively fast response speed, negligible baseline drift, and good stability, making a CsPbBr3 X‐ray detector extremely competitive for high‐contrast X‐ray detections.

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