Prevention of ion migration in lead halide perovskites upon plugging the anion vacancies with PbSe islands

To circumvent the issue of halide ion exchange in perovskites, we have decorated CsPbBr3 and CsPbI3 nanocrystals with different sized PbSe nanoparticles and demonstrated that it effectively prevents anion exchange reaction in CsPbBr3/CsPbI3 nanoheterostructures (NHSs) as a consequence of halide vacancy passivation by the more covalent selenide anion. Decorating CsPbX3 nanocrystals with PbSe islands plugs halide vacancies inhibiting anion migration.