A chiral switchable photovoltaic ferroelectric 1D perovskite
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States); Kunming Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
- Kunming Univ. of Science and Technology (China)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
Spin and valley degrees of freedom in materials without inversion symmetry promise previously unknown device functionalities, such as spin-valleytronics. Control of material symmetry with electric fields (ferroelectricity), while breaking additional symmetries, including mirror symmetry, could yield phenomena where chirality, spin, valley, and crystal potential are strongly coupled. Here we report the synthesis of a halide perovskite semiconductor that is simultaneously photoferroelectricity switchable and chiral. Spectroscopic and structural analysis, and first-principles calculations, determine the material to be a previously unknown low-dimensional hybrid perovskite (R)-(-)-1-cyclohexylethylammonium/(S)-(+)-1 cyclohexylethylammonium) PbI3. Optical and electrical measurements characterize its semiconducting, ferroelectric, switchable pyroelectricity and switchable photoferroelectric properties. Temperature dependent structural, dielectric and transport measurements reveal a ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition. Circular dichroism spectroscopy confirms its chirality. The development of a material with such a combination of these properties will facilitate the exploration of phenomena such as electric field and chiral enantiomer-dependent Rashba-Dresselhaus splitting and circular photogalvanic effects.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); New York State; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; 1635520; 1916652; 1712752; FA9550-18-1-0116; N000141812408; C150117
- OSTI ID:
- 1626041
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1762140
- Journal Information:
- Science Advances, Vol. 6, Issue 9; ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAASCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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