Two
novel semiconductor organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites
[(C6H15BrNO)2MBr4] (M
= Cd for 1 and Zn for 2) were successfully
synthesized, which undergo a high-temperature reversible transition
at T
c (T
c =
379 K for 1, 407 K for 2). Differential
scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve test shows that there is a pair of
reversible thermal abnormal peaks at 379/348 K for compound 1 during the heating/cooling process, and the thermal hysteresis
loop is ∼31 K. For compound 2, there is a pair
of reversible thermal anomaly peaks at 407/375 K, and the thermal
hysteresis loop is ∼33 K, indicating that the phase transition
to a first-order phase transition. The dielectric test further confirmed
the phase transition. X-ray single-crystal diffraction analysis showed
that the space groups of compounds 1 and 2 at 300 K belong to C2/c and
P
21/
c
, and the temperature-variable powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) test
proved that compounds 1 and 2 had reversible
structural phase transition. In addition, both UV–vis diffuse
reflectance spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations
have confirmed that both compounds 1 and 2 are direct band gaps, with values of 4.116 and 4.205 eV, respectively.
The above results show that 1 and 2 have
fast switchable dielectric properties and potential applications in
semiconductor materials.