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Title: Structures, Phase Transitions and Tricritical Behavior of the Hybrid Perovskite Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide

Abstract

Here, we examine the crystal structures and structural phase transitions of the deuterated, partially deuterated and hydrogenous organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite methyl ammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) using time-of-flight neutron and synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. Near 330 K the high temperature cubic phases transformed to a body-centered tetragonal phase. The variation of the order parameter Q for this transition scaled with temperature T as Q (Tc-T) , where Tc is the critical temperature and the exponent was close to , as predicted for a tricritical phase transition. We also observed coexistence of the cubic and tetragonal phases over a range of temperature in all cases, demonstrating that the phase transition was in fact first-order, although still very close to tricritical. Upon cooling further, all the tetragonal phases transformed into a low temperature orthorhombic phase around 160 K, again via a first-order phase transition. Finally, based upon these results, we discuss the impact of the structural phase transitions upon photovoltaic performance of MAPbI3 based solar cells.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [4]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical and Engineering Materials Division
  2. Dupont Electronics and Communication Technologies, Wilmington, DE (United States)
  3. Dupont Electronics and Communication Technologies, Wilmington, DE (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
  4. Dupont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, DE (United States); Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1329767
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 21 Oct; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Whitfield, P. S., Herron, N., Guise, W. E., Page, K., Cheng, Y. Q., Milas, I., and Crawford, M. K. Structures, Phase Transitions and Tricritical Behavior of the Hybrid Perovskite Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/srep35685.
Whitfield, P. S., Herron, N., Guise, W. E., Page, K., Cheng, Y. Q., Milas, I., & Crawford, M. K. Structures, Phase Transitions and Tricritical Behavior of the Hybrid Perovskite Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep35685
Whitfield, P. S., Herron, N., Guise, W. E., Page, K., Cheng, Y. Q., Milas, I., and Crawford, M. K. Fri . "Structures, Phase Transitions and Tricritical Behavior of the Hybrid Perovskite Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep35685. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1329767.
@article{osti_1329767,
title = {Structures, Phase Transitions and Tricritical Behavior of the Hybrid Perovskite Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide},
author = {Whitfield, P. S. and Herron, N. and Guise, W. E. and Page, K. and Cheng, Y. Q. and Milas, I. and Crawford, M. K.},
abstractNote = {Here, we examine the crystal structures and structural phase transitions of the deuterated, partially deuterated and hydrogenous organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite methyl ammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) using time-of-flight neutron and synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. Near 330 K the high temperature cubic phases transformed to a body-centered tetragonal phase. The variation of the order parameter Q for this transition scaled with temperature T as Q (Tc-T) , where Tc is the critical temperature and the exponent was close to , as predicted for a tricritical phase transition. We also observed coexistence of the cubic and tetragonal phases over a range of temperature in all cases, demonstrating that the phase transition was in fact first-order, although still very close to tricritical. Upon cooling further, all the tetragonal phases transformed into a low temperature orthorhombic phase around 160 K, again via a first-order phase transition. Finally, based upon these results, we discuss the impact of the structural phase transitions upon photovoltaic performance of MAPbI3 based solar cells.},
doi = {10.1038/srep35685},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 21 Oct,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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Investigation of high contrast and reversible luminescence thermochromism of the quantum confined Cs 4 PbBr 6 perovskite solid
journal, January 2019

  • Choi, Jin Woo; Cho, Namchul; Woo, Hee Chul
  • Nanoscale, Vol. 11, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8nr10223f

Liquid water-induced growth of the 1D morphology of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 hybrid perovskites
journal, January 2019

  • Bonadio, A.; de Oliveira, L. S.; Polo, A. S.
  • CrystEngComm, Vol. 21, Issue 48
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ce01275c

Edge functionalized graphene nanoribbons with tunable band edges for carrier transport interlayers in organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells
journal, January 2020

  • Kim, Eun Mi; Javaid, Saqib; Park, Jong Hyeok
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 22, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9cp06430c

Phase transition in the extreme: a cubic-to-triclinic symmetry change in dielectrically switchable cyanide perovskites
journal, January 2019

  • Trzebiatowska, Monika; Gągor, Anna; Macalik, Lucyna
  • Dalton Transactions, Vol. 48, Issue 42
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9dt03250a

Additive-assisted synthesis and optoelectronic properties of (CH 3 NH 3 ) 4 Bi 6 I 22
journal, January 2020

  • Sharma, Manila; Yangui, Aymen; Lusson, Alain
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Vol. 7, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9qi01574d

Room temperature crystal structure and high temperature structural and magnetic phase transitions in Sr(Fe 0.5 Nb 0.5 )O 3 ceramic
journal, May 2019

  • Kumar, Sushil; Singh, Akhilesh Kumar
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 125, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5091551

Size and temperature dependence of photoluminescence of hybrid perovskite nanocrystals
journal, October 2019

  • Naghadeh, Sara Bonabi; Sarang, Som; Brewer, Amanda
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 151, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5124025

Evaluation of the AMOEBA force field for simulating metal halide perovskites in the solid state and in solution
journal, January 2020

  • Rathnayake, P. V. G. M.; Bernardi, Stefano; Widmer-Cooper, Asaph
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 152, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5131790

Thermal stability of mobility in methylammonium lead iodide
journal, November 2019

  • Hong, Min Ji; Svadlenak, Scott R.; Goulas, Konstantinos A.
  • Journal of Physics: Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1088/2515-7639/ab442e

Ferroic multipolar order and disorder in cyanoelpasolite molecular perovskites
journal, May 2019

  • Coates, C. S.; Gray, H. J.; Bulled, J. M.
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 377, Issue 2149
  • DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0219

Free-electron effects on the optical absorption of the hybrid perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 from first principles
journal, July 2019


Investigating temperature-induced structural changes of lead halide perovskites by in situ X-ray powder diffraction
journal, September 2019

  • Caliandro, Rocco; Altamura, Davide; Belviso, Benny Danilo
  • Journal of Applied Crystallography, Vol. 52, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1107/s160057671901166x

An algebraic approach to cooperative rotations in networks of interconnected rigid units
journal, August 2018

  • Campbell, Branton; Howard, Christopher J.; Averett, Tyler B.
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, Vol. 74, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1107/s2053273318009713

Emerging Characterizing Techniques in the Fine Structure Observation of Metal Halide Perovskite Crystal
journal, May 2018


Interfacial Residual Stress Relaxation in Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Stability
journal, October 2019


Infrared-pump electronic-probe of methylammonium lead iodide reveals electronically decoupled organic and inorganic sublattices
journal, January 2019


Switchable dielectric phase transition behaviors in two organic–inorganic copper( ii ) halides with distinct coordination geometries
journal, January 2018

  • Mei, Ying-Xuan; Hua, Xiu-Ni; Gao, Ji-Xing
  • CrystEngComm, Vol. 20, Issue 40
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8ce01263f

Computational screening of methylammonium based halide perovskites with bandgaps suitable for perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells
journal, December 2018

  • Kar, M.; Körzdörfer, T.
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 149, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5037535

Structure-controlled optical thermoresponse in Ruddlesden-Popper layered perovskites
journal, November 2018

  • Cortecchia, D.; Neutzner, S.; Yin, J.
  • APL Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5045782

Microscopic calculation of the optical properties and intrinsic losses in the methylammonium lead iodide perovskite system
journal, January 2019

  • Bannow, Lars C.; Hader, Jörg; Moloney, Jerome V.
  • APL Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5078791

A new long-range sub-structure found in the tetragonal phase of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 single crystals
journal, May 2019

  • Jacques, V. L. R.; Gallo-Frantz, A.; Tejeda, A.
  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 52, Issue 31
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab202e

Phase Transitions of Hybrid Perovskites Simulated by Machine-Learning Force Fields Trained on the Fly with Bayesian Inference
journal, June 2019


Tracking Structural Phase Transitions in Lead‐Halide Perovskites by Means of Thermal Expansion
text, January 2019

  • Keshavarz, Masoumeh; Ottesen, Martin; Wiedmann, Steffen
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2019-04498

Perovskites-Based Solar Cells: A Review of Recent Progress, Materials and Processing Methods
journal, May 2018

  • Shi, Zhengqi; Jayatissa, Ahalapitiya
  • Materials, Vol. 11, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.3390/ma11050729

Light-induced picosecond rotational disordering of the inorganic sublattice in hybrid perovskites
text, January 2017

  • Wu, Xiaoxi; Tan, Liang Z.; Shen, Xiaozhe
  • Columbia University
  • DOI: 10.7916/d8sr0bbc

Room‐Temperature Cubic Phase Crystallization and High Stability of Vacuum‐Deposited Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Thin Films for High‐Efficiency Solar Cells
journal, August 2019

  • Palazon, Francisco; Pérez‐del‐Rey, Daniel; Dänekamp, Benedikt
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 39
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201902692

Efficient and Stable Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells Manufactured by Pulsed Flash Infrared Annealing
journal, September 2018

  • Sanchez, Sandy; Christoph, Neururer; Grobety, Bernard
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 30
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201802060

Atomic‐Resolution Imaging of Halide Perovskites Using Electron Microscopy
journal, February 2020

  • Song, Kepeng; Liu, Lingmei; Zhang, Daliang
  • Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 26
  • DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201904006

Crystal reorientation in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite thin film with thermal annealing
journal, January 2019

  • Kavadiya, Shalinee; Strzalka, Joseph; Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M.
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ta02358e

Non-Perovskite Hybrid Material, Imidazolium Lead Iodide, with Enhanced Stability
journal, October 2018


Growth, characterization, and thin film transistor application of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 perovskite on polymeric gate dielectric layers
journal, January 2017

  • Ngai, Jenner H. L.; Ho, Johnny K. W.; Chan, Rocky K. H.
  • RSC Adv., Vol. 7, Issue 78
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7ra08699g

Structural fluctuations cause spin-split states in tetragonal (CH 3 NH 3 )PbI 3 as evidenced by the circular photogalvanic effect
journal, September 2018

  • Niesner, Daniel; Hauck, Martin; Shrestha, Shreetu
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 38
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805422115

Effect of annealing temperature on the phase transition, band gap and thermoelectric properties of Cu 2 SnSe 3
journal, January 2018

  • Siyar, Muhammad; Cho, Jun-Young; Youn, Yong
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 6, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7tc05180h

Efficient perovskite solar cells fabricated by manganese cations incorporated in hybrid perovskites
journal, January 2019

  • Liu, Wei; Chu, Liang; Liu, Nanjing
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 7, Issue 38
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9tc03375k

Perovskite synthesis, properties and their related biochemical and industrial application
journal, September 2019


The Relation between Rotational Dynamics of the Organic Cation and Phase Transitions in Hybrid Halide Perovskites
journal, May 2019

  • Maheshwari, Sudeep; Fridriksson, Magnus B.; Seal, Sayan
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 123, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02736

Unraveling the Water Degradation Mechanism of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3
journal, July 2019


Inversion symmetry and bulk Rashba effect in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite single crystals
journal, May 2018


Cross-plane coherent acoustic phonons in two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites
journal, May 2018


Slow thermal equilibration in methylammonium lead iodide revealed by transient mid-infrared spectroscopy
journal, July 2018


Infrared-pump electronic-probe of methylammonium lead iodide reveals electronically decoupled organic and inorganic sublattices
journal, January 2019


Acoustic phonon lifetimes limit thermal transport in methylammonium lead iodide
journal, November 2018

  • Gold-Parker, Aryeh; Gehring, Peter M.; Skelton, Jonathan M.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 47
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812227115

Perovskites-Based Solar Cells: A Review of Recent Progress, Materials and Processing Methods
journal, May 2018

  • Shi, Zhengqi; Jayatissa, Ahalapitiya
  • Materials, Vol. 11, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.3390/ma11050729

Light-induced picosecond rotational disordering of the inorganic sublattice in hybrid perovskites
text, January 2017

  • Wu, Xiaoxi; Tan, Liang Z.; Shen, Xiaozhe
  • Columbia University
  • DOI: 10.7916/d8sr0bbc