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- Direct evidence of weakly dispersed and strongly anharmonic optical phonons in hybrid perovskites doi link

Auteur(s): da Cunha Ferreira Afonso, Paofai Serge, Létoublon Antoine, Ollivier Jacques, Raymond Stéphane, Hehlen B., Bourges Philippe, Ruffle B., Cordier Stéphane, Katan Claudine, Even Jacky

(Article) Publié: Communications Physics, vol. 3 p. (2020)
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DOI: 10.1038/s42005-020-0313-7
WoS: 000520516200001
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Résumé:

Hybrid organolead perovskites (HOP) have started to establish themselves in the field of photovoltaics, mainly due to their great optoelectronic properties and steadily improving solar cell efficiency. Study of the lattice dynamics is key in understanding the electron-phonon interactions at play, responsible for such properties. Here, we investigate, via neutron and Raman spectroscopies, the optical phonon spectrum of four different HOP single crystals: MAPbBr3, FAPbBr3, MAPbI3, and α-FAPbI3. Low temperature spectra reveal weakly dispersive optical phonons, at energies as low as 2-5 meV, which seem to be the origin of the limit of the charge carriers mobilities in these materials. The temperature dependence of our neutron spectra shows as well a significant anharmonic behaviour, resulting in optical phonon overdamping at temperatures as low as 80 K, questionning the validity of the quasi-particle picture for the low energy optical modes at room temperature where the solar cells operate.