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Metal halide perovskites have attracted significant attention for light-emitting applications, because of their excellent properties, such as high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs), good charge mobility, narrow emission bandwidth, readily tunable emission spectra ranging from ultraviolet to near-infrared, and solution processability. Since the first room-temperature perovskite-based light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) reported in 2014, tremendous efforts have been made to promote the efficiencies of PeLEDs, including theoretical simulation, materials design, and device engineering. To reach the ultimate goal of commercialization, PeLEDs with both high-efficiency and long-term operational stability are desired. Achieving high-quality perovskite emissive films is key towards this goal. Centering around the high-quality perovskite films, in this thesis, we demonstrate effective synthesis strategies for the deposition of high-quality perovskite films (including both three-dimensional and mixed-dimensional perovskites) and investigate the effects of ion migration in the perovskite films on the performance of PeLEDs. Due to the fast crystallization nature of perovskites and the low formation energy of defects, controlling the crystallization processes of these films has proved to be an effective approach for achieving high-quality perovskite films. For three-dimensional (3D) perovskite films, we have controlled the formation of these films through the assistance of molecules with the amino group. Herein, we have chosen an electron-transport molecule with two amino groups, 4,4’-diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS), to control the crystallization process of perovskite films (Paper 1). The resulting perovskite films consists of in-situ formed high quality perovskite nanocrystals embedded in the electron-transport molecular matrix, resulting in improved PLQYs and structural stability. PeLEDs based on these perovskite films have exhibited both high efficiency and long oper