Porous perovskite films integrated with Au–Pt nanowire-based electrodes for highly flexible large-area photodetectors

Abstract Flexible, large-area, and stable perovskite photodetectors have drawn increasing widespread research attention for next-generation wearable and portable optoelectronic devices. However, high mechanical durability coupled with large device area and enhanced environmental stability has not been demonstrated yet to attain practical viability. Herein, a highly bendable, stable, and large-area (3 cm²) flexible polystyrene incorporated perovskite photodetector is presented. Due to the formation of a porous polystyrene-perovskite composite film in a single step it allows unprecedented mechanical stability, maintaining 85% of its original photocurrent value after 10,000 bending cycles at a bending angle of 120°. Equally crucial, the solution-processed self-assembled Pt–Au nanochains were developed to provide a simple and fast method of patterning the conductive and flexible electrodes onto the filter substrate. The optimized polystyrene-perovskite photodetector exhibits a high responsivity up to 2.73 A W⁻¹, a maximum specific detectivity of 6.2 × 10¹³ Jones, and a superior switching ratio of 1.0 × 10⁴. In addition, the polystyrene-perovskite photodetector yields excellent stability under the combined stresses of moisture, ambient air, and room light, and retains 92% of its original performance for over 30 days. All these results demonstrate that this work provides a facile and cost-effective approach that paves the way to develop high-performance, stable, and highly flexible optoelectronic devices.