Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 182(2024)

Metal-Halide Perovskite Submicrometer-Thick Films for Ultra-Stable Self-Powered Direct X-Ray Detectors

Marco Girolami1,*... Fabio Matteocci2, Sara Pettinato1,3, Valerio Serpente1, Eleonora Bolli1, Barbara Paci4, Amanda Generosi4, Stefano Salvatori1,3, Aldo Carlo2,4 and Daniele M. Trucchi1 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1CNR-ISM, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Sede Secondaria di Montelibretti, DiaTHEMA Lab, Strada Provinciale 35D, 9, 00010, Montelibretti Rome, Italy
  • 2CHOSE – Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
  • 3Faculty of Engineering, Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, Via don Carlo Gnocchi 3, 00166 Rome, Italy
  • 4SpecXLab, CNR-ISM, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Istituto di Struttura Della Materia, Area della Ricerca di Tor Vergata, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy
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    Metal-halide perovskites are revolutionizing the world of X-ray detectors, due to the development of sensitive, fast, and cost-effective devices. Self-powered operation, ensuring portability and low power consumption, has also been recently demonstrated in both bulk materials and thin films. However, the signal stability and repeatability under continuous X-ray exposure has only been tested up to a few hours, often reporting degradation of the detection performance. Here it is shown that self-powered direct X-ray detectors, fabricated starting from a FAPbBr3 submicrometer-thick film deposition onto a mesoporous TiO2 scaffold, can withstand a 26-day uninterrupted X-ray exposure with negligible signal loss, demonstrating ultra-high operational stability and excellent repeatability. No structural modification is observed after irradiation with a total ionizing dose of almost 200 Gy, revealing an unexpectedly high radiation hardness for a metal-halide perovskite thin film. In addition, trap-assisted photoconductive gain enabled the device to achieve a record bulk sensitivity of 7.28 C Gy-1 cm-3 at 0 V, an unprecedented value in the field of thin-film-based photoconductors and photodiodes for “hard” X-rays. Finally, prototypal validation under the X-ray beam produced by a medical linear accelerator for cancer treatment is also introduced.

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    Marco Girolami, Fabio Matteocci, Sara Pettinato, Valerio Serpente, Eleonora Bolli, Barbara Paci, Amanda Generosi, Stefano Salvatori, Aldo Carlo, Daniele M. Trucchi. Metal-Halide Perovskite Submicrometer-Thick Films for Ultra-Stable Self-Powered Direct X-Ray Detectors[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 182

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jan. 14, 2024

    Accepted: Mar. 8, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Girolami Marco (marco.girolami@ism.cnr.it)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-024-01393-6

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