Electron-Rotor Interaction in Organic-Inorganic Lead Iodide Perovskites Discovered by Isotope Effects

Kai Zhu; Mengjin Yang; Matthew Beard; Jue Gong; Xiangchao Ma; Richard Schaller; Gang Liu; Lingping Kong; Michael Lesslie; Ying Dai; Baibiao Huang; Tao Xu; Ye Yang

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01199

Electron-Rotor Interaction in Organic-Inorganic Lead Iodide Perovskites Discovered by Isotope Effects

Kai Zhu
, Mengjin Yang
, Matthew Beard
, Jue Gong
, Xiangchao Ma
, Richard Schaller
, Gang Liu
, Lingping Kong
, Michael Lesslie
, Ying Dai
, Baibiao Huang
, Tao Xu
, Ye Yang

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Abstract

We report on the carrier-rotor coupling effect in perovskite organic-inorganic hybrid lead iodide (CH₃NH₃PbI₃) compounds discovered by isotope effects. Deuterated organic-inorganic perovskite compounds including CH₃ND₃PbI₃, CD₃NH₃PbI₃, and CD₃ND₃PbI₃ were synthesized. Devices made from regular CH₃NH₃PbI₃ and deuterated CH₃ND₃PbI₃ exhibit comparable performance in band gap, current-voltage, carrier mobility, and power conversion efficiency. However, a time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) study reveals that CH₃NH₃PbI₃ exhibits notably longer carrier lifetime than that of CH₃ND₃PbI₃, in both thin-film and single-crystal formats. Furthermore, the comparison in carrier lifetime between CD₃NH₃PbI₃ and CH₃ND₃PbI₃ single crystals suggests that vibrational modes in methylammonium (MA⁺) have little impact on carrier lifetime. In contrast, the fully deuterated compound CD₃ND₃PbI₃ reconfirmed the trend of decreasing carrier lifetime upon the increasing moment of inertia of cationic MA⁺. Polaron model elucidates the electron-rotor interaction.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	2879-2887
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume	7
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01199 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01199
State	Published - 4 Aug 2016

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isotope effects
organic-inorganic
perovskite
solar-photochemistry

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Zhu, K., Yang, M., Beard, M., Gong, J., Ma, X., Schaller, R., Liu, G., Kong, L., Lesslie, M., Dai, Y., Huang, B., Xu, T., & Yang, Y. (2016). Electron-Rotor Interaction in Organic-Inorganic Lead Iodide Perovskites Discovered by Isotope Effects. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7(15), 2879-2887. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01199, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01199

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