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Ultrasensitive 3D Aerosol-Jet-Printed Perovskite X-ray Photodetector

Glushkova, Anastasiia  
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Andricevic, Pavao  
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Smajda, Rita
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March 23, 2021
Acs Nano

X-ray photon detection is important for a wide range of applications. The highest demand, however, comes from medical imaging, which requires cost-effective, high-resolution detectors operating at low-photon flux, therefore stimulating the search for novel materials and new approaches. Recently, hybrid halide perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI(3)) has attracted considerable attention due to its advantageous optoelectronic properties and low fabrication costs. The presence of heavy atoms, providing a high scattering cross-section for photons, makes this material a perfect candidate for X-ray detection. Despite the already-successful demonstrations of efficiency in detection, its integration into standard microelectronics fabrication processes is still pending. Here, we demonstrate a promising method for building X-ray detector units by 3D aerosol jet printing with a record sensitivity of 2.2 x 10(8) mu C Gy(air)(-1) cm(-2) when detecting 8 keV photons at dose rates below 1 mu Gy/s (detection limit 0.12 mu Gy/s), a 4-fold improvement on the best-in-class devices. An introduction of MAPbI(3)-based detection into medical imaging would significantly reduce health hazards related to the strongly ionizing Xrays' photons.

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