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The bandgap tunability of mixed-halide perovskites makes them promising candidates for light emitting diodes and tandem solar cells. However, illuminating mixed-halide perovskites results in the formation of segregated phases enriched in a…

Structural disorder is common in metal-halide perovskites and important for understanding the functional properties of these materials. First-principles methods can address structure variation on the atomistic scale, but they are often…

The integrated device of a perovskite solar cell with a Li-ion battery is an innovative solution for decentralized energy storage in smart electronic devices. In this study, we examine the stability of Li ions intercalated in a CsPbI$_3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Wei Wei , Julian Gebhardt , Daniel F. Urban , Christian Elsässer

A detailed understanding of the carrier dynamics and emission characteristics of organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites is critical for their optoelectronic and energy harvesting applications. In this work, we reveal the impact of the…

Despite their puzzling vibrational characteristics that include strong signatures of anharmonicity and thermal disorder already around room temperature, halide perovskites exhibit favorable optoelectronic properties for applications in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-08 Christian Gehrmann , Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila , Xiangzhou Zhu , David A. Egger

The competition between corner, edge and face-sharing octahedral networks is a cause of phase inhomogeneity in metal halide perovskite thin-films. Here we probe the charged iodine vacancy distribution and transport at the junction between…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-03 Young Won Woo , Zhenzhu Li , Young-Kwang Jung , Ji-Sang Park , Aron Walsh

The low ionization energy of an $A$ site molecule is a very important factor, which determines the thermodynamical stability of $A$PbI$_3$ hybrid halide perovskites, while the size of the molecule governs the stable phase at room…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Chao Zheng , Oleg Rubel

A little addition of Cl to \ce{MAPbI3} has been reported to improve the material stability as well as light harvesting and carrier conducting properties of organometal trihalide perovskites, the key component of perovskite solar cell (PSC).…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-22 Un-Gi Jong , Chol-Jun Yu , Yong-Man Jang , Gum-Chol Ri , Song-Nam Hong , Yong-Hyon Pae

Here we develop a microscopic approach aimed at the description of a suite of physical effects related to carrier transport in, and the optical properties of, halide perovskites. Our theory is based on the description of the nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-13 Matthew Z. Mayers , Liang Z. Tan , David A. Egger , Andrew M. Rappe , David R. Reichman

It is now widely recognized that surface and interfacial defects exhibit distinct behavior compared to bulk defects in metal halide perovskites. However, the transition from bulk to surface behavior and the spatial extent of the surface's…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-23 Bilal Ahmad , Md Salman Rabbi Limon , Zeeshan Ahmad

It is unmistakably paradoxical that the weakest point of the photoactive organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite is its instability against light. Why and how perovskites break down under light irradiation and what happens at the atomistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-14 Kwisung Kwak , Eunhak Lim , Namyoung Ahn , Jiyoung Heo , Kijoon Bang , Seong Keun Kim , Mansoo Choi

Note: This paper has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, which can be viewed at the following URL: http://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP03102H Cs2SnI6, a rarely studied perovskite variant material, is recently gaining a lot of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Zewen Xiao , Yuanyuan Zhou , Hideo Hosono , Toshio Kamiya

The spectacular performance of halide perovskites in optoelectronic devices is rooted in their tolerance to defects. Previous studies showed that defects in these materials generate shallow electronic states. However, how these shallow…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Frederico P. Delgado , Frederico Simões , Leeor Kronik , Waldemar Kaiser , David A. Egger

Organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites have recently attracted increasing attention as highly efficient light harvesting materials for photovoltaic applications. However, the precise control of crystallization and morphology of…

Cesium based halide perovskites, such as CsPbI3 and CsSnI3, have emerged as exceptional candidates for next generation photovoltaic and optoelectronic technologies, but their practical application is limited by temperature dependent phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-30 Atefe Ebrahimi , Franco Pellegrini , Stefano De Gironcoli

Ni et al. report minimum bulk trap densities of 10^11 cm-3 and 1-4 orders change in interfacial trap densities derived from drive-level capacitance profiling of lead halide perovskites. From basic electrostatic arguments, we show that such…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Sandheep Ravishankar , Thomas Unold , Thomas Kirchartz

All inorganic halide perovskites offer promising optoelectronic properties at low cost, but their structural softness and thermal instability limit applications. Density functional theory using the FP-LAPW method (WIEN2k) was used to study…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Sikander Azam , Asif Zaman , Qaiser Rafiq , Amin Ur Rahman , Saleem Ayaz Khan

The role of data in modern materials science becomes more valuable and accurate when effects such as electron-phonon coupling and anharmonicity are included, providing a more realistic representation of finite-temperature material behavior.…

Metal halide perovskites have shown great performance as solar energy materials, but their outstanding optoelectronic properties are paired with unusually strong anharmonic effects. It has been proposed that this intriguing combination of…

Divalent cations mixed lead halide perovskites with enhanced performances, high stabilities, and reduced toxicity are requisite to make persistent progress in perovskite solar cells. However, the mixing strategy is not reported extensively…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-09 Anupriya Nyayban , Subhasis Panda , Avijit Chowdhury