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ANDREAS LYRAS

Associate Professor

FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY

Sciences
Department Of Physics & Astronomy
publication
Journal Article
2021

Anion Substitution Effects on the Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of Inorganic CsRb(I1-xBrx)3 and CsRb(Br1-xClx)3 Perovskites: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches

Several inorganic perovskites of iodine, bromine, and chlorine halides have emerged as candidates for various optoelectronic devices. High-quality CsPb(I1–xBrx)3 and CsPb(Br1–xClx)3 (x = 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, and 1.00) inorganic perovskite thin films were prepared in this study using a thermal evaporation system. Experiments and first-principles calculations were conducted to elucidate the structural, electronic, and optical properties of the prepared films at room temperature. The thin-film perovskite band gap was tuned from 1.85 to 3.13 eV by replacing I– with Br– and then Cl–. Dominant excitonic effects on the onset of optical absorption led us to explicitly account for enhancing absorption through the Sommerfield factor, enabling us to extract the electronic band gap and the exciton binding energy correctly. We correlated our experimental results with the theory of first principles and gained insight into the lattice parameters, electronic structure, excitonic binding energy (Eb), dielectric constant (ε), and reduced effective mass (μ) of the carriers. With increasing concentration (x) of Br and Cl, the Eb increased from 39.44 meV for pure CsPbI3 to 63.04 and 96.73 meV for pure CsPbBr3 and CsPbCl3, respectively, because of a decrease in the dielectric constant and the almost constant value of μ at ∼0.051 me. The Urbach energy (EU) was calculated and found to fluctuate between 28 and 77 meV.

Publication Work Type
Original Research
Publisher Name
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume Number
125
Issue Number
1
Magazine \ Newspaper
THE JOURNAL OF P;HYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Pages
886 to 897
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We present the theoretical framework and the approximations needed to numerically simulate the response of alkali metal atoms under multi-photon excitation.

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We report theoretical results for the transition amplitudes of two-photon transitions induced in a one-active-electron atomic system by a LG10 beam. We identify the excitation pathways for…

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We investigate the quantized states of a two-level Rb atom that is trapped by the optical dipole potential when the atom interacts with a helical optical tube light field.

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