Abstract
Low-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have attracted much interest owing to their superior solar conversion performance, environmental stability, and excitonic properties compared to their three-dimensional (3D) counterparts. Among reduced-dimensional perovskites, guanidinium-based perovskites crystallize in layered one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D). Here, our studies demonstrate how the dimensionality of the hybrid perovskite influences the chemical and physical properties under different pressures (i.e., bond distance, angle, vdW distance). Comprehensive studies show that 1D GuaPbI3does not undergo a phase transition even up to high pressures (∼13 GPa) and its band gap monotonically reduces with pressure. In contrast, 2D Gua2PbI4exhibits an early phase transition at 5.5 GPa and its band gap follow nonmonotonic pressure response associated with phase transition as well as other bond angle changes. Computational simulations reveal that the phase transition is related to the structural deformation and rotation of PbI6octahedra in 2D Gua2PbI4owing to a larger degree of freedom of deformation. The soft lattice allows them to uptake large pressures, which renders structural phase transitions possible. Overall the results offer the first insights into how layered perovskites with different dimensionality respond to structural changes driven by pressure.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 44964-44971 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 37 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 22 2021 |
Funding
The authors acknowledge the use of facilities within the Eyring Materials Center at Arizona State University supported in part by NNCI-ECCS-1542160. Funding for the computational portion of this work was provided by the National Science Foundation through the Division of Materials Research under NSF DMR-1726213. S.T. acknowledges the support for synthesis efforts (NSF CMMI-182559 and CMMI-1933214), electrical characterization (ECCS 2052527), and excitonic characterization (DMR-2111812). S.Y. acknowledges ASU start-up fund and helpful discussion from Xiang Zhang at UC Berkeley.
Keywords
- 2D materials
- DAC
- high pressure
- layered materials
- perovskites
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science