Electronic Properties of a New All-Inorganic Perovskite TlPbI3 Simulated by the First Principles

Zhao Liu; Ting Zhang; Yafei Wang; Chenyun Wang; Peng Zhang; Hojjatollah Sarvari; Zhi Chen; Shibin Li

doi:10.1186/s11671-017-2015-y

Electronic Properties of a New All-Inorganic Perovskite TlPbI₃ Simulated by the First Principles

Zhao Liu, Ting Zhang, Yafei Wang, Chenyun Wang, Peng Zhang, Hojjatollah Sarvari, Zhi Chen, Shibin Li

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Abstract

All-inorganic perovskites have been recognized as promising photovoltaic materials. We simulated the perovskite material of TlPbI₃ using ab initio electronic structure calculations. The band gap of 1.33 eV is extremely close to the theoretical optimum value. Compared TlPbI₃ with CsPbI₃, the total energy (−3980 eV) of the former is much lower than the latter. The partial density of states (PDOS) of TlPbI₃ shows that a strong bond exists between Tl and I, resulting in the lower total energy and more stable existence than CsPbI₃.

Original language	English
Article number	232
Journal	Nanoscale Research Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-017-2015-y
State	Published - Dec 1 2017

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, The Author(s).

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant nos. 61421002, 61574029, and 61371046. This work was also partially supported by the University of Kentucky.

Funders	Funder number
University of Kentucky
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	61574029, 61371046, 61421002

Keywords

All-inorganic perovskite
CsPbI
First principles
TlPbI

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General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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