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- Elastic softness of hybrid lead halide perovskites hal link

Auteur(s): da Cunha Ferreira Afonso, Létoublon Antoine, Paofai Serge, Saidaminov Makhsud, Raymond Stephane, Ecolivet Claude, Ruffle B., Cordier Stéphane, Katan Claudine, Bakr Osman, Even Jacky, Bourges Philippe

Conference: Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique (JDN 2018) (Roquebrune-sur-Argens, FR, 2018-05-14)


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Much recent attention has been devoted towards unraveling the microscopic optoelectronic properties of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites. Here we investigate by coherent inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy and Brillouin light scattering, low frequency acoustic phonons in four different hybrid perovskite single crystals: MAPbBr_{3}, FAPbBr_{3}, MAPbI_{3}, and α-FAPbI_{3} (MA: methylammonium, FA: formamidinium). We report a complete set of elastic constants characterized by a very soft shear modulus C_{44}. Further, a tendency towards an incipient ferroelastic transition is observed in FAPbBr_{3}. We observe a systematic lower sound group velocity in the technologically important iodide-based compounds compared to the bromide-based ones. The findings suggest that low thermal conductivity and hot phonon bottleneck phenomena are expected to be enhanced by low elastic stiffness, particularly in the case of the ultrasoft α-FAPbI_{3}.