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Perovskite Materials: Application Perspective

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Recent advances in perovskite materials have resulted in impressive gains in solar cell, neutron, X-ray, and gamma ray detection performance. This chapter reviews recent advancements in perovskite technology and contrasts them against state-of-the-art semiconductor technology, as well as conventional scintillator technologies. A new startup company Actinia is described as a case study. The focus in this chapter in on application side and growing perovskite material ecosystem.

Perovskite crystals were discovered 150 years ago but received widespread attention only in the last 5–10 years. The technology development was initially driven by solar cell industry, but X-ray detection capability has been recognized very recently as possible to adopt. The main reason for that possible change of direction is sensitivity to moisture so it is much easier to handle that in X-ray detection equipment than in solar panels.

Many papers claim good X-ray performance, but they are usually achieved in thin films; so at the present moment, this technology is not really a threat to traditional semiconductor devices. In addition, perovskites do not perform well under high-flux conditions, creating an additional barrier to entry for applications like computed tomography (CT).

Still, due to their unique material properties, perovskites will find some entry points where low cost, ease of manufacture, and mechanical flexibility are attractive. They will likely displace some low-end scintillator solutions and perhaps with time applications like mammography/breast imaging where flexible shape will be of premium.

It is not possible to predict how this technology will move forward as every day a new perovskite paper reaches research journals, so this chapter offers a sampling perspective in 2022. Things can change quickly as perovskite materials have already and will attract even more research funding and attention of government and big players in our industry.

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Iniewski, K.(., Nie, W., Haruta, Y., Saidaminov, M. (2023). Perovskite Materials: Application Perspective. In: Nie, W., Iniewski, K.(. (eds) Metal-Halide Perovskite Semiconductors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26892-2_1

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