Electronic properties of Cs-based halide perovskites: An ab-initio study
| Autor: | Georgia Moschou, Iosif Galanakis, Athanasios Koliogiorgos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Materials science Band gap Ab initio Halide Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) FOS: Physical sciences 02 engineering and technology Surfaces and Interfaces 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Surfaces Coatings and Films Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Catalysis Lattice constant Chemical physics 0103 physical sciences Halogen Materials Chemistry Density functional theory Electrical and Electronic Engineering 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Electronic band structure |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1801.06983 |
| Popis: | Halide perovskites consist a class of materials under intense investigation due to their potential technological applications like solar cells, optoelectronic devices and catalysis. Recently we have studied using electronic band structure calculations from first principles, the cubic MABX$_3$ compounds [A. Koliogiorgos et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. \textbf{138}, 92 (2017)], where MA stands for the methylammonium cation, B is a divalent cation and X a halogen. We expand our study in the case where Cs stands in place of the MA cation. Our results suggest that the Cs-based compounds exhibit also a variety of lattice constants and energy band gaps. The calculated equilibrium lattice constants differ substantially from the experimental ones. The calculated energy gaps also show large deviations for these lattice constants. Moreover, the use of more sophisticated functionals leads to conflicting changes in the energy gap values and its effect is materials dependent. Our results suggest that contrary to the MA halide perovskites, the Cs halide perovskites consist a more delicate case and there is still a long way for \textit{ab-initio} calculations to accurate describe their structural and electronic properties. Comment: Physica Status Solidi A: Applications and Materials Science accepted for a Special Issue on "Materials for Energy Harvesting" |
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