Chiral Dicarbonyl Ligand-Functionalized CsPbI3 Nanoplatelets for Circularly Polarized Red Emission and Light-Emitting Diodes
Jinhua Rao a, Sujun Ji a, Boyu Zhang a, Yongge Yang a, Shikai Chen a, Shuzi Hayase a, Jibin Zhang a, Qing Shen a
a Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585 Japan
Poster, Jinhua Rao, 093
Publication date: 22nd October 2026

    Circularly polarized light-emitting diodes (CP-LEDs) offer potential applications in three-dimensional displays, information encryption, and optical communication. However, achieving efficient molecular chirality transfer and large luminescence dissymmetry factors while maintaining high photoluminescence quantum yields in inorganic perovskite nanoplatelets remains challenging. Here, we employ a surface coordination strategy to functionalize CsPbI3 nanoplatelets (NPLs) with a pair of chiral ligands containing two carbonyl groups, thereby introducing chiroptical activity into the inorganic semiconductor. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) reveals a shift of the Pb 4f binding energies toward lower values following ligand functionalization, consistent with coordination interactions between the ligand carbonyl groups and surface Pb sites. These interfacial interactions may modify the local electronic environment and contribute to the transfer of molecular chirality to the inorganic semiconductor. The functionalized NPLs exhibit mirror-image circular dichroism (CD) signals near the band-edge excitonic absorption and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with opposite handedness, indicating that surface functionalization induces enantiomer-dependent chiroptical responses. Meanwhile, the chiral NPLs retain narrowband red emission centered at 645 nm with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 33 nm, while maintaining a photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 96% and achieving an absolute luminescence dissymmetry factor (|g_lum|) of 1.5×10-2. The chiral NPLs are further incorporated as the emissive layer in red light-emitting diodes, with preliminary device results supporting their feasibility for electroluminescent applications. These findings link the surface coordination of chiral dicarbonyl ligands to the chiroptical response of CsPbI3 nanoplatelets and provide a strategy for generating circularly polarized emission from inorganic perovskite nanocrystals while preserving high luminescence efficiency.

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