Despite recent progress in producing perovskite nanowires (NWs) for optoelectronics, it remains challenging to solution‐print an array of NWs with precisely controlled position and orientation. Herein, we report a robust capillary‐assisted solution printing (CASP) strategy to rapidly access aligned and highly crystalline perovskite NW arrays. The key to the CASP approach lies in the integration of capillary‐directed assembly through periodic nanochannels and solution printing through the programmably moving substrate to rapidly guide the deposition of perovskite NWs. The growth kinetics of perovskite NWs was closely examined by in situ optical microscopy. Intriguingly, the as‐printed perovskite NWs array exhibit excellent optical and optoelectronic properties and can be conveniently implemented for the scalable fabrication of photodetectors.
Despite recent progress in producing perovskite nanowires (NWs) for optoelectronics, it remains challenging to solution‐print an array of NWs with precisely controlled position and orientation. Herein, we report a robust capillary‐assisted solution printing (CASP) strategy to rapidly access aligned and highly crystalline perovskite NW arrays. The key to the CASP approach lies in the integration of capillary‐directed assembly through periodic nanochannels and solution printing through the programmably moving substrate to rapidly guide the deposition of perovskite NWs. The growth kinetics of perovskite NWs was closely examined by in situ optical microscopy. Intriguingly, the as‐printed perovskite NWs array exhibit excellent optical and optoelectronic properties and can be conveniently implemented for the scalable fabrication of photodetectors.
more » « less- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10162601
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Angewandte Chemie
- Volume:
- 132
- Issue:
- 35
- ISSN:
- 0044-8249
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 15052-15059
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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