Tin perovskites have emerged as a promising alternative material to address the toxicity of lead perovskites and the low bandgap of around 1.1 eV is also compatible with tandem solar cell applications. Nevertheless, the optoelectronic performance of solution-processed tin perovskite single-crystal counterparts still lags behind because of the tin instability under ambient conditions during crystal growth and limited reductants to protect the Sn ions from oxidation. Here, the reductant engineering to grow high-quality tin perovskite single crystals under ambient conditions is studied. Oxalic acid (H C O ) serves as an excellent reductant and sacrificial agent to protect Sn ions in methanol due to its suitable redox potential of -0.49 V, and the CO as the oxidation product in the gas state can be easily separated from the solution. The FPEA SnI single crystal grown by this strategy exhibits low trap density perovskite surface by constructing an FPEA PbI -FPEA SnI (FPI-FSI) single crystal heterojunction for X-ray detection. An improved X-ray sensitivity of 1.7 × 10 µC Gy cm is realized in the heterojunction device, outperforming the control FPEA PbI counterpart.
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Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R. China.
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Hahn-Meitner Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany.
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