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Article Dans Une Revue Nano Letters Année : 2019

Tuning electronic structure in layered hybrid perovskites with organic spacer substitution

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Two-dimensional layered halide organic perovskites (LHOPs) are promising candidates for many optoelectronic applications due to their interesting tunable properties. They provide a unique opportunity to control energy and charge dynamics via the independent tunability of the energy levels within the perovskite and the organic spacer for various optoelectronic applications. In the perovskite layer alone, one can replace the Pb (Sn), the halide (X=I,Br,Cl), the organic component, and the number of layers between the organic spacer layers. In addition, there are many possibilities for organic spacer layers between the perovskite layers, making it difficult for experimental methods to comprehensively explore such extensive combinatorial space. Of particular technological interest is alignment of electronic levels between the perovskite layer and the organic spacer layer, leading to desired transfer of energy or charge carriers between perovskite and organic components. For example, as band edge absorption is almost entirely attributed to the perovskite layer, one way to demonstrate energy transfer is to observe triplet emission from organic spacers. State-of-the-art computational chemistry tools can be used to predict the properties of many stoichiometries in search for LHOPs that have the most promising electronic structure features. In this first principles study, we survey a group of π-conjugated organic spacer candidates for use in triplet light emitting LHOPs. Utilizing density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT, we calculate the first singlet (S1) and triplet (T1) excitation energy in the ground-state geometry and the first triplet excitation energy in the excited triplet state relaxed geometry (T1*). By comparing these energies to the known lowest exciton energy level of PbnX(3n+1) perovskite layers (X=I, Br, Cl), organic spacer and perovskite layer pairings can be identified for possible transfer of Wannier excitons from the inorganic perovskite lattice to spin-triplet Frenkel excitons located on the organic cation. We successfully identify ten organic spacer candidates for possible pairing with perovskite layers of specific halide composition to achieve triplet light emission across the visible energy range. Molecular dynamics simulations predict that finite temperatures and perovskite environment have little influence on the excitation energies of the two common organic spacers naphthylethylammonium (NEA) and phenelethylammonium (PEA). We find significant thermal broadening up to 0.5 eV of the optical excitation energies appearing due to finite temperature effects. The findings herein provide insights into alignment of electronic levels of conjugated organic spacer with perovskite layer.
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hal-02343044 , version 1 (12-02-2021)

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Joshua Leveillee, Claudine Katan, Jacky Even, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Wanyi Nie, et al.. Tuning electronic structure in layered hybrid perovskites with organic spacer substitution. Nano Letters, 2019, 19 (12), pp.8732-8740. ⟨10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03427⟩. ⟨hal-02343044⟩
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