Quasi-elastic neutron study of the organic cation dynamics in the halide perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 for PV applications

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Solar cells based on a layer of halide perovskite have recently seen rapid increases in efficiency, with certified values in excess of 20%. The prototypical material of this class is the methyl-ammonium-containing halide perovskite CH3NH3PbI3. Very recently, the phase transitions and dynamic disorder of this structure, which has been extensively studied since the eighties, have come under renewed scrutiny, since they appear to be related to key PV performance parameters. Here, we propose to study for the first time the dynamics of the CH3NH3 organic molecule via quasi-elastic neutron scattering, on OSIRIS. This will allow the detailed study of the CH3NH3 reorientation and its effect on the phase transitions and symmetry of the low temperature phases. Additionally we propose the measurement of a fully deuterated sample to investigate dynamical correlations between CH3NH3 molecules.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.67775343
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/67775343
Provenance
Creator Dr Jeff Armstrong; Professor Paolo Radaelli; Dr Amir Abbas Haghighirad; Professor Henry Snaith; Dr Roger Johnson; Mr James Beilsten-Edmands; Professor Felix Fernandez-Alonso
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-11-23T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-12-02T09:00:00Z