Oxide ferroelectric materials based on ABO3 structure possess net electric polarization at zero applied fields that give rise to new photovoltaic concepts. One of the peculiar properties which is specific...
Halide perovskite materials recently attracted wide attention for light-emitting applications. The intense white light emission and excited state lifetimes greater than 1 μs are the hallmarks of a good light-emitting material. Here, we provide a clear design strategy to achieve both of these aforementioned properties in a single material via the introduction of octahedral asymmetry in halide double perovskites Cs2AgMCl6 through iso-trivalent substitution at the M site. In the substituted Cs2AgMCl6, the presence of mixed M3+ sites distorts the [AgCl6]5- octahedra, affecting the parity of the valence and conduction band edges and thereby altering the optical transitions. The distortion also creates a local polarization that leads to an effective photogenerated carrier separation. Considering perovskite series with three M3+ cations, namely Bi3+, In3+ and Sb3+, the mixed trivalent cationic compounds with specific ratios of In3+ and Bi3+ show white light emission with intensity nearly 150 times larger than that of the parent compounds, and are characterised by excited state lifetimes nearing 1 μs. Using single crystal X-ray diffraction, far-infrared absorption, steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence, bias-dependent photoluminescence, P-E loop traces and density-functional theory calculations, we hence demonstrate the role of octahedral distortion in enhancing white light emission and excited state lifetimes of halide double perovskites.
Herein, we present the strategy to introduce above room temperature non-centrosymmetry in two-dimensional halide double perovskites (A’4M’M’’X8) using halogenated A’-site organic linker, 3-chloro/bromo propyl amine. These crystals exhibit anisotropic polarization...
Tuning the dimensionality in halide perovskites provides
an opportunity
to obtain the properties desired for optoelectronic devices. In this
work, we demonstrate the dimensional reduction of 3D halide double-perovskite
Cs2AgBiBr6 by systematically introducing alkylammonium
organic spacer CH3(CH2)
n
NH3
+ (n = 1, 2, 3, and
6) of varying chain lengths. The single crystals of these materials
were grown, and their structures were studied at 23 and −93
°C. The ethylammonium cation led to a formation of a 0D material,
whereas all the other three higher alkyl ammonium spacers resulted
in two-dimensional materials. The parent material possessed symmetric
octahedra, whereas the modified samples led to both inter- and intra-octahedral
distortion, thereby reducing the symmetry of constituent octahedra.
The reduction in dimensionality led to a blue shift in the optical
absorption spectrum. All these low-dimensional materials show excellent
stability, and they are employed as absorbers for solar photovoltaics.
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