Photovoltage‐Driven Two‐Transistor–One‐Diode Perovskite Pixels for In‐Cell Optical Sensing Displays

In-cell optical sensing displays are essential for next-generation interactive electronics, yet conventional architectures rely on separate light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors (PDs), limiting pixel density and efficiency. Achieving both functions within a single diode is intrinsically difficult because electroluminescence requires strong excitonic recombination, whereas photodetection benefits from efficient carrier separation. Here, we realize stable dual-mode operation by stabilizing intermediate-n quasi-2D phases and suppressing non-radiative losses with a fluorinated acid passivator, and by engineering high-mobility transport layers with a dissociative (type-II) perovskite/electron transport layer heterojunction to assist exciton dissociation under photovoltaic operation. The resulting bifunctional diode enables an opto-dynamic random-access memory (opto-DRAM) pixel, a two-transistor-one-diode (2T1D) architecture conceptually analogous to a two-transistor-one-capacitor (2T1C) DRAM gain-cell, where photovoltage-driven rather than photocurrent-driven detection enables self-amplified sensing when coupled to thin-film transistors. The sky-blue PeLED achieves an external quantum efficiency of 20.4% at 100 cd m<sup>-2</sup> and a record power efficiency of 41.8 lm W<sup>-1</sup>, while as the coupled sensing pixel it exhibits a maximum responsivity of 4.17 × 10<sup>4</sup> A W<sup>-1</sup> and a specific detectivity of 6.46 × 10<sup>13</sup> Jones. Monolithic integration yields an active-matrix display capable of switchable emission and imaging functions offering a scalable platform for compact, energy-efficient, and multifunctional optoelectronics.

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Advanced Materials
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2026-02-25
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https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202522776
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Perovskite Materials and Applications
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Photovoltage‐Driven Two‐Transistor–One‐Diode Perovskite Pixels for In‐Cell Optical Sensing Displays

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In-cell optical sensing displays are essential for next-generation interactive electronics, yet conventional architectures rely on separate light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors (PDs), limiting pixel density and efficiency. Achieving both functions within a single diode is intrinsically difficult because electroluminescence requires strong excitonic recombination, whereas photodetection benefits from efficient carrier separation. Here, we realize stable dual-mode operation by stabilizing intermediate-n quasi-2D phases and suppressing non-radiative losses with a fluorinated acid passivator, and by engineering high-mobility transport layers with a dissociative (type-II) perovskite/electron transport layer heterojunction to assist exciton dissociation under photovoltaic operation. The resulting bifunctional diode enables an opto-dynamic random-access memory (opto-DRAM) pixel, a two-transistor-one-diode (2T1D) architecture conceptually analogous to a two-transistor-one-capacitor (2T1C) DRAM gain-cell, where photovoltage-driven rather than photocurrent-driven detection enables self-amplified sensing when coupled to thin-film transistors. The sky-blue PeLED achieves an external quantum efficiency of 20.4% at 100 cd m<sup>-2</sup> and a record power efficiency of 41.8 lm W<sup>-1</sup>, while as the coupled sensing pixel it exhibits a maximum responsivity of 4.17 × 10<sup>4</sup> A W<sup>-1</sup> and a specific detectivity of 6.46 × 10<sup>13</sup> Jones. Monolithic integration yields an active-matrix display capable of switchable emission and imaging functions offering a scalable platform for compact, energy-efficient, and multifunctional optoelectronics.

Advanced MaterialsVol. 38(17)
Linköping University (SE), Sun Yat-sen University (CN), Peking University (CN), Integrated Optoelectronics (Norway) (NO), Peking University Shenzhen Hospital (CN), Zhejiang University (CN), South China University of Technology (CN)
Affordable and clean energy
Openalex Percentile: Top 45%
Perovskite Materials and Applications
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