Excited-state vibrational dynamics toward the polaron in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite
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· Nature Communications
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Dong-A Univ., Busan (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Chemistry
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Andrés Bello National Univ., Santiago (Chile). Dept. of Physical Sciences; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Regensburg (Germany)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics. Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst.; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. Kavli Energy NanoSciences Inst.; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division
Hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites have attractive optoelectronic properties including exceptional solar cell performance. The improved properties of perovskites have been attributed to polaronic effects involving stabilization of localized charge character by structural deformations and polarizations. Here we examine the Pb–I structural dynamics leading to polaron formation in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite by transient absorption, time-domain Raman spectroscopy, and density functional theory. Methylammonium lead iodide perovskite exhibits excited-state coherent nuclear wave packets oscillating at ~20, ~43, and ~75 cm-1 which involve skeletal bending, in-plane bending, and c-axis stretching of the I–Pb–I bonds, respectively. The amplitudes of these wave packet motions report on the magnitude of the excited-state structural changes, in particular, the formation of a bent and elongated octahedral PbI64- geometry. We have predicted the excited-state geometry and structural changes between the neutral and polaron states using a normal-mode projection method, which supports and rationalizes the experimental results. This study reveals the polaron formation via nuclear dynamics that may be important for efficient charge separation.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- LANL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; LBNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1459840
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1506380
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--17-31256
- Journal Information:
- Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 9; ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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