Surface reconstruction of tetragonal methylammonium lead triiodide
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Abstract
We present a detailed first-principles analysis of the (001) surface of methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI3). With density functional theory, we investigate the atomic and electronic structure of the tetragonal (I4cm) phase of MAPbI3. We analyzed surface models with MAI-termination (MAI-T) and PbI2-termination (PbI2-T). For both terminations, we studied the clean surface and a series of surface reconstructions. We find that the clean MAI-T model is more stable than its counterpart, PbI2-T. For the MAI-T, reconstructions with added or removed units of nonpolar MAI and PbI2 are most stable. The corresponding band structures reveal surface states originating from the conduction band. Despite the presence of such additional surface states, our stable reconstructed surface models do not introduce new states within the bandgap.
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OpenAlex topics: Perovskite Materials and Applications · Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties · Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
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Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University 1 , FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education and International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University 2 , Xi’an 710049, China
Funding
Academy of Finland · Väisälän Rahasto
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