• Journal of Semiconductors
  • Vol. 41, Issue 5, 052201 (2020)
Zhongti Sun1、2, Xiwen Chen1、2, and Wanjian Yin1、2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS (SIEMIS), Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
  • 2Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
  • 3Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province & Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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    DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/41/5/052201 Cite this Article
    Zhongti Sun, Xiwen Chen, Wanjian Yin. Comprehensive first-principles studies on phase stability of copper-based halide perovskite derivatives AlCumXn (A = Rb and Cs; X = Cl, Br, and I)[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2020, 41(5): 052201 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Recently, inorganic copper-based halide perovskites and their derivatives (CHPs) with chemical formulas AlCumXn (A = Rb and Cs; X = Cl, Br and I; l, m, and n are integers.), have received increasing attention in the photoluminescence field, due to their lead-free, cost-effective, earth-abundant and low electronic dimensionality. Ascribed to flexible valence charge of Cu (Cu1+ and Cu2+) and complex competing phases, the crystal structures and phase stabilities of CHPs are complicated and ambiguous, which limits their experimental applications. Via comprehensive first-principles calculations, we have investigated thermodynamic stabilities of possible crystal phases for AlCumXn by considering all the possible secondary phases existing in inorganic crystal structure database (ICSD). Our results are in agreement with existing experiments and further predicted the existence of 10 stable CHPs, i.e. Rb3Cu2Br5, Rb3Cu2I5, RbCu2Cl3, Rb2CuI3, Rb2CuBr4, RbCuBr3, Rb3Cu2Br7, Cs3Cu2Br7, Cs3Cu2Cl7 and Cs4Cu5Cl9, which have not yet been reported in experiments. This work provides a phase and compositional map that may guide experiments to synthesize more novel inorganic CHPs with diverse properties for potential functional applications.
    $l{\mu _A} + m{\mu _{{\rm{Cu}}}} + n{\mu _{\rm{X}}} = \Delta H\left( {{{\rm{A}}_l}{\rm{C}}{{\rm{u}}_m}{{\rm{X}}_n}} \right),\;\;l,m,\;n = 1,2, \ldots ,N,$ (1)

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    ${\mu _\alpha } \leqslant 0,\quad {\alpha = {\rm{A}},{\rm{Cu}},{\rm{X}}} ,$ (2)

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    ${h_i}{\mu _{\rm{A}}} + {k_i}{\mu _{{\rm{Cu}}}} + {l_i}{\mu _{\rm{X}}} \leqslant \Delta H\left( {{{\rm{A}}_{{h_i}}}{\rm{C}}{{\rm{u}}_{{k_i}}}{{\rm{X}}_{{l_i}}}} \right),\;\;i = 1,2, \ldots ,N,$ (3)

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    ${{\rm{A}}_l}{\rm{C}}{{\rm{u}}_m}{{\rm{X}}_n} \to \mathop \sum \limits_{i = 1}^i {x_i}{}{{\rm{A}}_{{h_i}}}{\rm{C}}{{\rm{u}}_{{k_i}}}{{\rm{X}}_{{l_i}}},$ (4)

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    $\Delta {H_d} = \mathop \sum \limits_{i = 1}^i {x_i}E\left( {{{\rm{A}}_{{h_i}}}{\rm{C}}{{\rm{u}}_{{k_i}}}{{\rm{X}}_{{l_i}}}} \right) - E\left( {{{\rm{A}}_l}{\rm{C}}{{\rm{u}}_m}{{\rm{X}}_n}} \right),$ (5)

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    $\mathop \sum \limits_{i = 1}^i {x_i}{h_i} = l,\quad\mathop \sum \limits_{i = 1}^i {x_i}{k_i} = m,\quad\mathop \sum \limits_{i = 1}^i {x_i}{l_i} = n,$ (6)

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    $0 \leqslant {x_i} \leqslant {\rm{min}}\left( {\frac{l}{{{h_i}}},\frac{m}{{{k_i}}},\frac{n}{{{l_i}}}} \right),$ (7)

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    Zhongti Sun, Xiwen Chen, Wanjian Yin. Comprehensive first-principles studies on phase stability of copper-based halide perovskite derivatives AlCumXn (A = Rb and Cs; X = Cl, Br, and I)[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2020, 41(5): 052201
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