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Register a new userOn the role of the electron-phonon interaction in the temperature dependence of the gap of lead halide perovskites
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Alejandro R. Go\\~ni
Publication date
2019
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Physics
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English
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A. Francisco-Lopez
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Lead halide perovskites are causing a change of paradigm in photovoltaics. Among other peculiarities, these perovskites exhibit an atypical temperature dependence of the fundamental optical gap: It decreases in energy with decreasing temperature. So far reports ascribe such a behavior to a particularly strong electron-phonon renormalization of the band gap, neglecting completely contributions from thermal expansion effects. However, high pressure experiments performed, for instance, on the archetypal perovskite MAPbI$_3$, where MA stands for methylammonium, yield a negative pressure coefficient for the gap of the tetragonal room-temperature phase, which speaks against the assumption of a negligible gap shift due to thermal expansion. On the basis of the high pressure results, we show here that for MAPbI$_3$ the temperature-induced gap renormalization due to electron-phonon interaction can only account for about 40% of the total energy shift, thus implying thermal expansion to be the dominant term. Furthermore, this result possesses general validity, holding also for the tetragonal or cubic phase, stable at ambient conditions, of other halide perovskite counterparts.
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