Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 15, Pages 5194-5204Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01851
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- Energy oriented Centre of Excellence (EoCoE) - Horizon2020 framework of the European Union [676629]
- EPSRC [EP/L01551X/1]
- UK EPSRC [EP/K016288/1]
- Materials Chemistry Consortium [EP/L000202]
- EPSRC [EP/R020485/1, EP/K016288/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Hybrid lead halide perovskites containing a mixture of A-site cations such as the formamidinium (CH(NH2)(2)(+), FA) and the smaller cesium (Cs+) cations have attracted considerable interest due to their improved stability and solar cell performance. However, the structural changes at the atomic scale and modifications to the optoelectronic properties of these mixed cation perovskites are not fully understood. Here, we investigate the FA(1-x)Cs(x)PbI(3) (x <= 0.25) system using a combination of static and dynamic ab initio computational methods. We find that the incorporation of Cs+ cations into the parent FAPbI(3) structure induces a chemical pressure or lattice strain effect through Cs/FA ion size mismatch resulting in structural distortion and stronger FA-iodide (N-H center dot center dot center dot I) hydrogen bonding interactions. The dynamic tilting of PbI6 octahedra and the rotational motion of FA cations are also suppressed, which leads to symmetry-breaking of the lattice. Such symmetry-breaking distortions of the Pb/I lattice give rise to a Rashba-type effect, which spin-splits the frontier electronic bands making the band gap indirect. Our results suggest that the direct-indirect band gap transition may be a factor in the reduced charge-carrier recombination rate in these mixed cation perovskites.
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