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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 59, Issue 1, Pages 424-428Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201910599
Keywords
ferroelectricity; hybrid perovskites; inorganic chemistry; photovoltaic materials; structure elucidation
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Excellent conversion efficiencies of over 20% and facile cell production have placed hybrid perovskites at the forefront of novel solar cell materials, with CH3NH3PbI3 being an archetypal compound. The question why CH3NH3PbI3 has such extraordinary characteristics, particularly a very efficient power conversion from absorbed light to electrical power, is hotly debated, with ferroelectricity being a promising candidate. This does, however, require the crystal structure to be non-centrosymmetric and we herein present crystallographic evidence as to how the symmetry breaking occurs on a crystallographic and, therefore, long-range level. Although the molecular cation CH3NH3+ is intrinsically polar, it is heavily disordered and this cannot be the sole reason for the ferroelectricity. We show that it, nonetheless, plays an important role, as it distorts the neighboring iodide positions from their centrosymmetric positions.
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