Solution-grown single crystals (SCs) of semiconducting methylammonium lead halide perovskites are promising materials for full-colour imaging. Here we show one-pixel photodetector prototype, constructed by stacking three layers of blue-, green- and red-sensitive MAPbCl3, MAPbBr3 and MAPb(Br/I)3 crystals, respectively. This layered structure concept has several advantages: imparting a two- to three-fold reduction in the number of required pixels, three times more efficient light utilization (and thus higher sensitivity) than common Bayer filters scheme, colour moiré suppression and no need for de-mosaic image processing. In addition, the direct band gap structure of perovskites results in optical absorption that is several orders of magnitude greater than silicon.
- Sergii Yakunin
- Yevhen Shynkarenko
- Maksym V Kovalenko