Understanding the temperature and pressure dependence of the optoelectronic and structural properties of faxma1-xpbi3 perovskite solid solutions
- Autores: Adrian Francisco Lopez
- Directores de la Tesis: Mariano Campoy Quiles (dir. tes.), Alejandro Rodolfo Goñi (dir. tes.), María Isabel Alonso Carmona (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2020
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Fernando Rodríguez González (presid.), Mariona Coll Bau (secret.), Mauricio Calvo Roggiani (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ciencia de Materiales por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TESEO
- Resumen
Hybrid organic/inorganic perovskites have attracted a lot of attention since they were first introduced in a working photovoltaic device ten years ago, yielding an efficiency of around 3%. Since then, the efficiency of the perovskite solar cells has risen to almost stand toe to toe with that of commercial silicon photovoltaics. Besides, it allows the fabrication of flexible devices at an inexpensive cost. Due to its exceptionally good optoelectronic properties, there is also an intense research for different applications of this type of materials, such as sensors, lasers or light-emitting diodes. However, they still present some issues that need to be addressed, such as chemical or structural instabilities under ambient conditions. In order to better understand the structural stability, and the role played by the interaction between the organic cation and the inorganic framework, we studied the structural and optoelectronic properties of perovskites of the family FAxMA1-xPbI3 at different pressures (up to 15 GPa) and temperatures (10 to 385 K). We investigated this material by noninvasive optical spectroscopy means, such as photoluminescence (PL), Raman and ellipsometry.
In the articles here compiled, the first complete phase diagram of mixed cation (formamidinium and methylammonium) lead iodide perovskites is provided as a function of temperature and composition. This serves to assess the best relative concentration of the organic cations to stabilize the cubic phase with respect to temperature changes. These materials also present an atypical dependence of the bandgap with temperature, which in the literature is ascribed exclusively to a huge electron-phonon renormalization. However, here we show that thermal expansion effects also play a decisive role in the temperature behavior of the fundamental gap.
From all the combinations in the family of organometal halide perovskites, MAPbI3 is probably the most studied due to its outstanding optoelectronic properties. It is known that the interplay between the movement of the organic cations and the rigid inorganic cage has a decisive role in the crystalline structure of this material. For instance, due to the dynamic disorder of the methylammonia, MAPbI3 adopts a highly symmetric cubic phase at high temperatures. When cooling down, both the contraction of the lattice and the reduction of symmetry due to a transition to an orthorhombic phase lock the MA molecules in the cage voids. We are able to observe for the first time a similar effect but at room temperature, by applying hydrostatic pressure to the material. In both cases, the locking of the MA cations can be indirectly observed through a drastic reduction of the phonon linewidths in Raman experiments. We have shown, in this way, that it is possible to alter the vibrational properties of the material by applying a controlled hydrostatic pressure. Finally, the tuning of the bandgap and the variation of the band structure of the mixed-system FAxMA1-xPbI3 is evaluated as a function of FA composition with ellipsometry and photoluminescence.
