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Title: Rashba Spin–Orbit Coupling Enhanced Carrier Lifetime in CH3NH3PbI3

Abstract

Organometal halide perovskites are promising solar-cell materials for next-generation photovoltaic applications. The long carrier lifetime and diffusion length of these materials make them very attractive for use in light absorbers and carrier transporters. While these aspects of organometal halide perovskites have attracted the most attention, the consequences of the Rashba effect, driven by strong spin-orbit coupling, on the photovoltaic properties of these materials are largely unexplored. In this work, taking the electronic structure of CH3NH3PbI3 (methylammonium lead iodide) as an example, we propose an intrinsic mechanism for enhanced carrier lifetime in three-dimensional (3D) Rashba materials. On the basis of first-principles calculations and a Rashba spin-orbit model, we demonstrate that the recombination rate is reduced due to the spin-forbidden transition. These results are important for understanding the fundamental physics of organometal halide perovskites and for optimizing and designing the materials with better performance. The proposed mechanism including spin degrees of freedom offers a new paradigm of using 3D Rashba materials for photovoltaic applications.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  2. Carnegie Inst. of Science, Washington, DC (United States). Geophysical Lab.
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF); Carnegie Institution of Science
OSTI Identifier:
1867848
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-07ER46431; N00014-14-1-0761; CBET-1159736
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 15; Journal Issue: 12; Related Information: NOTICE: The article has a correction to figure 1. See: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04300; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Organometal halide perovskite; carrier lifetime; electron−phonon coupling; Rashba spin−orbit coupling; spin-forbidden transition

Citation Formats

Zheng, Fan, Tan, Liang Z., Liu, Shi, and Rappe, Andrew M. Rashba Spin–Orbit Coupling Enhanced Carrier Lifetime in CH3NH3PbI3. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01854.
Zheng, Fan, Tan, Liang Z., Liu, Shi, & Rappe, Andrew M. Rashba Spin–Orbit Coupling Enhanced Carrier Lifetime in CH3NH3PbI3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01854
Zheng, Fan, Tan, Liang Z., Liu, Shi, and Rappe, Andrew M. Fri . "Rashba Spin–Orbit Coupling Enhanced Carrier Lifetime in CH3NH3PbI3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01854. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1867848.
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title = {Rashba Spin–Orbit Coupling Enhanced Carrier Lifetime in CH3NH3PbI3},
author = {Zheng, Fan and Tan, Liang Z. and Liu, Shi and Rappe, Andrew M.},
abstractNote = {Organometal halide perovskites are promising solar-cell materials for next-generation photovoltaic applications. The long carrier lifetime and diffusion length of these materials make them very attractive for use in light absorbers and carrier transporters. While these aspects of organometal halide perovskites have attracted the most attention, the consequences of the Rashba effect, driven by strong spin-orbit coupling, on the photovoltaic properties of these materials are largely unexplored. In this work, taking the electronic structure of CH3NH3PbI3 (methylammonium lead iodide) as an example, we propose an intrinsic mechanism for enhanced carrier lifetime in three-dimensional (3D) Rashba materials. On the basis of first-principles calculations and a Rashba spin-orbit model, we demonstrate that the recombination rate is reduced due to the spin-forbidden transition. These results are important for understanding the fundamental physics of organometal halide perovskites and for optimizing and designing the materials with better performance. The proposed mechanism including spin degrees of freedom offers a new paradigm of using 3D Rashba materials for photovoltaic applications.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01854},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 12,
volume = 15,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 7
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Computer calculations across time and length scales in photovoltaic solar cells
journal, January 2016

  • Bernardi, Marco; Grossman, Jeffrey C.
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 9, Issue 7
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Indirect to direct bandgap transition in methylammonium lead halide perovskite
journal, January 2017

  • Wang, Tianyi; Daiber, Benjamin; Frost, Jarvist M.
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 10, Issue 2
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Energy level diagram of HC(NH 2 ) 2 PbI 3 single crystal evaluated by electrical and optical analyses
journal, January 2018

  • Sekimoto, Takeyuki; Suzuka, Michio; Yokoyama, Tomoyasu
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 20, Issue 3
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Chaotization of internal motion of excitons in ultrathin layers by spin–orbit coupling
journal, January 2018

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  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 20, Issue 11
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Pressure-induced dramatic changes in organic–inorganic halide perovskites
journal, January 2017

  • Lü, Xujie; Yang, Wenge; Jia, Quanxi
  • Chemical Science, Vol. 8, Issue 10
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Candidate photoferroic absorber materials for thin-film solar cells from naturally occurring minerals: enargite, stephanite, and bournonite
journal, January 2017

  • Wallace, Suzanne K.; Svane, Katrine L.; Huhn, William P.
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Circularly polarized photoluminescence and Hanle effect measurements of spin relaxation in organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite films
journal, January 2018

  • Wang, Ruizhi; Hu, Shu; Yang, Xiao
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 6, Issue 12
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Large polaron formation and its effect on electron transport in hybrid perovskites
journal, January 2019

  • Zheng, Fan; Wang, Lin-wang
  • Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 12, Issue 4
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Structure and property tunability in monolayer halide lead-free double hybrid perovskites: effects of Rashba and biaxial strain
journal, January 2019

  • Liu, Qi; Liang, WanZhen
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 18
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Double peak emission in lead halide perovskites by self-absorption
journal, January 2020

  • Schötz, Konstantin; Askar, Abdelrahman M.; Peng, Wei
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Research Update: Relativistic origin of slow electron-hole recombination in hybrid halide perovskite solar cells
journal, September 2016

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Stability and carrier mobility of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 in two-dimensional limit
journal, October 2017

  • Huang, Kui; Lai, Kang; Yan, Chang-Lin
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 147, Issue 16
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Steady-state microwave conductivity reveals mobility-lifetime product in methylammonium lead iodide
journal, October 2018

  • Labram, John G.; Perry, Erin E.; Venkatesan, Naveen R.
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 15
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Water in hybrid perovskites: Bulk MAPbI 3 degradation via super-hydrous state
journal, April 2019

  • Kakekhani, Arvin; Katti, Radhika N.; Rappe, Andrew M.
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Ultrafast acoustic phonon scattering in CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 revealed by femtosecond four-wave mixing
journal, October 2019

  • March, Samuel A.; Riley, Drew B.; Clegg, Charlotte
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 151, Issue 14
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Helicity-dependent terahertz photocurrent and phonon dynamics in hybrid metal halide perovskites
journal, December 2019

  • Cheng, D.; Liu, Z.; Luo, L.
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 151, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5127767

Origin of long lifetime of band-edge charge carriers in organic–inorganic lead iodide perovskites
journal, July 2017

  • Chen, Tianran; Chen, Wei-Liang; Foley, Benjamin J.
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  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1704421114

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

Temperature-dependent optical properties of hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite single crystals (CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 and CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 )
journal, June 2019

  • Park, Sangheon; Seo, Yu-Seong; Ahn, Chang Won
  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 52, Issue 33
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Modeling hybrid perovskites by molecular dynamics
journal, November 2016

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  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 29, Issue 4
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Monolayer CS as a metal-free photocatalyst with high carrier mobility and tunable band structure: a first-principles study
journal, January 2018

  • Yang, Xiao-Le; Ye, Xiao-Juan; Liu, Chun-Sheng
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 30, Issue 6
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Terahertz surface and interface emission spectroscopy for advanced materials
journal, February 2019

  • Huang, Yuanyuan; Yao, Zehan; He, Chuan
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 31, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab00c0

A study of structural phase transitions and optoelectronic properties of perovskite-type hydride MgFeH 3 : ab initio calculations
journal, May 2019

  • Kurban, Mustafa; Kürkçü, Cihan; Yamçıçıer, Çağatay
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 31, Issue 30
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Modeling nonadiabatic dynamics in condensed matter materials: some recent advances and applications
journal, November 2019

  • Smith, Brendan; Akimov, Alexey V.
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 32, Issue 7
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Observation of long spin lifetime in MAPbBr 3 single crystals at room temperature
journal, January 2020

  • Yang, Shijia; Vetter, Eric; Wang, Tonghui
  • Journal of Physics: Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1088/2515-7639/ab69b0

Rashba spin splitting and photocatalytic properties of GeC M SSe ( M = Mo , W) van der Waals heterostructures
journal, October 2019


Electronic band structure trends of perovskite halides: Beyond Pb and Sn to Ge and Si
journal, May 2016


Optical properties of the organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite C H 3 N H 3 Pb I 3 : Theory and experiment
journal, August 2016


Giant Rashba Splitting in CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 Organic-Inorganic Perovskite
journal, September 2016


Near-Band-Edge Optical Responses of CH 3 NH 3 PbCl 3 Single Crystals: Photon Recycling of Excitonic Luminescence
journal, February 2018


Carrier Lifetimes and Polaronic Mass Enhancement in the Hybrid Halide Perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 from Multiphonon Fröhlich Coupling
journal, August 2018


Photoinduced Rashba Spin-to-Charge Conversion via an Interfacial Unoccupied State
journal, June 2019


Octahedral tilting instabilities in inorganic halide perovskites
journal, February 2018


First-principles thermodynamics study of phase stability in inorganic halide perovskite solid solutions
journal, April 2018


Towards predictive band gaps for halide perovskites: Lessons from one-shot and eigenvalue self-consistent G W
journal, October 2019


Finite-temperature simulation of anharmonicity and octahedral tilting transitions in halide perovskites
journal, November 2019


Light-induced picosecond rotational disordering of the inorganic sublattice in hybrid perovskites
journal, July 2017


Large polarons in lead halide perovskites
journal, August 2017

  • Miyata, Kiyoshi; Meggiolaro, Daniele; Trinh, M. Tuan
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Lead halide perovskites: Crystal-liquid duality, phonon glass electron crystals, and large polaron formation
journal, October 2017

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  • Science Advances, Vol. 3, Issue 10
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Detailed balance analysis of plasmonic metamaterial perovskite solar cells
journal, January 2019


CsPbBr_3 perovskite quantum dots: saturable absorption properties and passively Q-switched visible lasers
journal, January 2017

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Ultrahigh sensitivity of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite single crystals to environmental gases
text, January 2016

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Understanding the physical properties of hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications
text, January 2017

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


Physical Properties and Photovoltaic Application of Semiconducting Pd2Se3 Monolayer
journal, October 2018

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Aggregation-induced emission in lamellar solids of colloidal perovskite quantum wells
text, January 2017


Optical Spintronics in Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Photovoltaics
text, January 2016


Local polar fluctuations in lead halide perovskite crystals
text, January 2016


Perspective: Theory and simulation of hybrid halide perovskites
text, January 2017


Dynamic Symmetry Breaking and Spin Splitting in Metal Halide Perovskites
text, January 2017


Spin-lattice and electron-phonon coupling in 3$d$/5$d$ hybrid Sr$_3$NiIrO$_6$
text, January 2019


Long-lived hot-carrier light emission and large blue shift in formamidinium tin triiodide perovskites
journal, January 2018


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


Author Correction: Indirect tail states formation by thermal-induced polar fluctuations in halide perovskites
journal, March 2019


Circular photogalvanic spectroscopy of Rashba splitting in 2D hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite multiple quantum wells
journal, January 2020


Multi Band Gap Electronic Structure in CH3NH3PbI3
journal, February 2019


Origin of Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling in 2D and 3D Lead Iodide Perovskites
journal, March 2020


Perspective: Theory and simulation of hybrid halide perovskites
journal, June 2017

  • Whalley, Lucy D.; Frost, Jarvist M.; Jung, Young-Kwang
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Long-lived polarization memory in the electronic states of lead-halide perovskites from local structural dynamics.
text, January 2018

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