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According to the phenomenon that the solubility of CH3NH3PbCl3 decreases with the increase of temperature in different solvents, CH3NH3PbCl3 perovskite single crystal with a maximum dimension of 11 mm × 11 mm × 2 mm is grown by introducing a high-quality seed crystal via the seed-induced inverse temperature crystallization method in this work. X-ray diffraction and Rietveld refinements show that the full widths at half maximum (FWHM) of CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal diffraction peaks are 0.1527°, 0.1353°, 0.2295° and 0.3452°, corresponding to the crystal plane indices of (100), (200), (300) and (400), respectively. And there are no miscellaneous peaks, indicating a good crystal quality. As a result, CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal is of cubic phase at room temperature, its space group belongs to Pm
$ \bar{3} $ m, and the lattice constant is a = 0.56877 nm. The surface morphology and growth mechanism of CH3NH3PbCl3 crystal are investigated by using a polarizing microscope. It is found that its growth mechanism follows the step horizontal growing mechanism of smooth interface, and its growth direction (that is, step movement direction) is along the outward normal direction of the step. The structural symmetry of CH3NH3PbCl3 crystal is studied by variable temperature Raman spectroscopy, which reveals an orthogonal-tetragonal phase transition at 160 K. But the tetragonal phase structure is not stable, and its temperature range is very narrow. As temperature rises gradually, the tetragonal phase again transforms into a cubic phase (Pm$\bar{3}$ m). Results of UV-Vis-NIR absorption and photoluminescence spectra show that the absorption cutoff of CH3NH3PbCl3 crystal is about 442 nm, and the photoluminescence peak is 450 nm. Thereupon, its band gap is obtained to be about 2.93 eV by a linear fit of Tauc formula, which is slightly higher than the theoretical value of 2.55 eV calculated by first principles simulation. We believe that it is related to the seed crystal, which is introduced into the crystal growth process as the core of heterogeneous nucleation and thus making the lattice more distorted. The lower the lattice symmetry of CH3NH3PbCl3, the larger the band gap is, that is, the lattice symmetry determines the degree of distortion for inorganic PbCl6 octahedral frameworks, resulting in an increase of band gap for CH3NH3PbCl3.-
Keywords:
- CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal /
- seed-induced inverse temperature crystallization method /
- step horizontal growing mechanism /
- first-principles calculations
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图 1 籽晶诱导逆温差结晶法生长CH3NH3PbCl3单晶 (a)原理示意图; (b) CH3NH3PbCl3在DMF和DMSO混合溶剂中的溶解度曲线
Figure 1. CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal grown by seed-induced inverse temperature crystallization method: (a) Schematic diagram of principle; (b) temperature-dependent solubility curve of CH3NH3PbCl3 in DMF+DMSO mixed solution.
图 3 籽晶诱导逆温差结晶法生长CH3NH3PbCl3单晶 (a) 单晶XRD图谱; (b)粉末XRD与Material studio模拟的标准XRD图谱; (c) 粉末XRD Rietveld精修结果(Rp = 12.6%, Rwp = 18.5%)
Figure 3. CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal grown by seed-induced inverse temperature crystallization method: (a) XRD pattern of single crystal; (b) powder XRD and standard XRD pattern simulated by Material studio; (c) Rietveld result of powder XRD pattern (Rp = 12.6%, Rwp = 18.5%).
图 5 (a) CH3NH3PbCl3单晶的UV-Vis-NIR吸收光谱和PL光谱; (b) 通过拟合得到的帯隙值(蓝色散点是实验数据, 黑色实线是拟合结果Eg = 2.93 eV)
Figure 5. (a) UV-Vis-NIR absorption and PL spectra of CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal; (b) band gap obtained by fitting (Blue scatter dots are the experimental data, and the black solid line is the fitting result of Eg = 2.93 eV).
图 6 CH3NH3PbCl3单晶的变温拉曼光谱 (a), (b) 80—300 K; (c), (d) 150—170 K; (e) 158 K; (f) 160 K; (g) 不同温度下CH3NH3PbCl3晶体结构(立方/四方/正交)的拉曼谱
Figure 6. Temperature-dependent Raman spectra of CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal: (a), (b) 80–300 K; (c), (d) 150–170 K; (e) 158 K; (f) 160 K; (g) Raman spectra of CH3NH3PbCl3 crystal structures (cubic/tetragonal/orthogonal) at different temperatures.
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[6] Chen H, Ye F, Tang W, He J, Yin M, Wang Y, Xie F, Bi E, Yang X, Grätzel M, Han L 2017 Nature 550 92Google Scholar
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[14] Yu W, Li F, Yu L, Niazi M R, Zou Y, Corzo D, Basu A, Ma C, Dey S, Tietze M L, Buttner U, Wang X, Wang Z, Hedhili M N, Guo C, Wu T, Amassian A 2018 Nat. Commun. 9 5354Google Scholar
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