Kinetic Process with Anti-Frenkel Disorder in a CsPbI 3 Perovskite

Halide perovskites are rich in ionic diffusion phenomena due to their low activation energy. The soft lead iodide lattice can, in theory, endow the system with more complex defect collaborative motions. In this work, we systematically investigated the hopping mechanics of iodide interstitials with r...

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Published in:The journal of physical chemistry letters 2024-03, Vol.15 (10), p.2929-2935
Main Authors: Lv, Taoyuze, Liang, Yuhang, Zeng, Fang, Li, Feng, Yang, Xudong, Huang, Jun, Zheng, Rongkun
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Language:English
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Summary:Halide perovskites are rich in ionic diffusion phenomena due to their low activation energy. The soft lead iodide lattice can, in theory, endow the system with more complex defect collaborative motions. In this work, we systematically investigated the hopping mechanics of iodide interstitials with respect to various defect behaviors, such as anti-Frenkel disorder creation and annihilation. We found that the existence of iodide vacancies and interstitials can effectively lower the creation barrier of additional anti-Frenkel disorder in the halide perovskite. The free energy barriers for generating additional Frenkel defect pairs vary from 0.25 to 0.43 eV, in the proximity of those of the original iodide defects at 300 K. This finding suggests that the spontaneous creation of a specific level of anti-Frenkel disorder facilitates long-range annihilation and defect hopping processes.
ISSN:1948-7185
1948-7185
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03473