Professor Song Qinghai and Chen Yimu's team at Harbin Institute of Technology developed a new type of chiral optoelectronic material to provide new ideas for electro-circularly polarized light sources
Recently, the team of Professor Song Qinghai and Professor Chen Yimu from the School of Integrated Circuits at the Shenzhen Campus has made important research progress in the field of optoelectronic devices. The research results were published in Nature Communications under the title "Perovskite spin light-emitting diodes with simultaneously high electroluminescence dissymmetry and high external quantum efficiency".
Light-emitting diodes that can achieve direct electro-induced circularly polarized light emission can meet the needs of the next generation of information technology in terms of miniaturization, integration, high speed, low power consumption, and multifunctionality, and show good application potential in the fields of quantum information, new displays, optical communications and information security, and precision biomedicine. In practical applications, this type of device needs to have excellent luminescence performance, especially high external quantum efficiency, and be able to produce highly asymmetric circularly polarized light. However, mainstream organic circularly polarized light-emitting diodes have limitations in achieving both high optoelectronic performance and high luminescence asymmetry. Therefore, the development of high-performance, high-asymmetry circularly polarized light-emitting diodes based on new materials is crucial to the new generation of information technology. Chiral perovskite materials have an efficient chirality-induced spin selection effect, which can break through the limitations of the low chirality/glare activity of the material structure to produce highly asymmetric spin-polarized charges, and directly realize the emission of circularly polarized light through the radiative recombination of spin-polarized charges, providing a new idea for the construction of this type of device.
In response to the above problems, the research team thoroughly investigated the problems existing in the existing spin light-emitting diodes based on chiral perovskite materials, proposed a device working model of spin-polarized excitons, and through the path of "working mechanism-material regulation-device optimization", developed a perovskite spin light-emitting diode with both high luminescence asymmetry and high external quantum efficiency.