Progressive polytypism and bandgap tuning in azetidinium lead halide perovskites
Abstract
Mixed halide azetidinium lead perovskites AzPbBr3–xXx (X = Cl or I) were obtained by mechanosynthesis. With varying halide composition from Cl– to Br– to I–, the chloride and bromide analogues both form in the hexagonal 6H polytype while the iodide adopts the 9R polytype. An intermediate 4H polytype is observed for mixed Br/I compositions. Overall, the structure progresses from 6H to 4H to 9R perovskite polytype with varying halide composition. Rietveld refinement of the powder X-ray diffraction patterns revealed a linear variation in unit cell volume as a function of the average radius of the anion, which not only is observed within the solid solution of each polytype (according to Vegard’s law) but also extends uniformly across all three polytypes. This is correlated to a progressive (linear) tuning of the bandgap from 3.43 to 2.00 eV. Regardless of halide, the family of azetidinium halide perovskite polytypes are highly stable, with no discernible change in properties over more than 6 months under ambient conditions.
Citation
Tian , J , Cordes , D B , Slawin , A M Z , Zysman-Colman , E & Morrison , F D 2021 , ' Progressive polytypism and bandgap tuning in azetidinium lead halide perovskites ' , Inorganic Chemistry , vol. 60 , no. 16 , pp. 12247–12254 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01425
Publication
Inorganic Chemistry
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0020-1669Type
Journal article
Description
We thank the Chinese Scholarship Council for Ph.D. Studentship support (to J.T., CSC No. 201603780020).Collections
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