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Probing structure–property relationship in chemical vapor deposited hybrid perovskites by pressure and temperature

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Chemical vapor deposition (CVD), a low-cost and a scalable deposition technique, allows the growth of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) films without the use of solvents, substantially increasing air stability while also inducing the stable cubic phase at room temperature and at pressures as low as 0.25 GPa. MAPbI3 thin films were grown by a facile two-step low-pressure vapor deposition process in a single reactor. This method results in films, which are usually in the tetragonal phase (space group: I4/mcm) and occasionally in the cubic phase under ambient conditions. High-pressure synchrotron-based X-ray diffraction studies from CVD-grown MAPbI3 crystallites show that the sample remains in the cubic phase (space group: Im\(\bar{3}\)) between 0.25 and 3.0 GPa. Temperature-dependent transport measurements show sharp anomalies, correlating with the structural changes. The transport measurements from the CVD-grown cubic MAPI3 film is further compared with a film in the tetragonal phase.

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We acknowledge the support of this work through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. DMR-1807263. DKS acknowledges the support by US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under the grant no. DE-SC0014461. CJA was supported by the South African National Research Foundation (Grant No. 103621, 92520, and 93212) and the University of Missouri-University of Western Cape Linkage Program. Portions of this work were performed at GeoSoilEnviroCARS (The University of Chicago, Sector 13), Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory. GeoSoilEnviroCARS is supported by the NSF– Earth Sciences (EAR – 1634415) and Department of Energy- GeoSciences (DE-FG02-94ER14466). Use of the COMPRES-GSECARS gas loading system was supported by COMPRES under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR -1606856 and by GSECARS through NSF grant EAR-1634415 and DOE grant DE-FG02-94ER14466. This research used resources of the APS, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. We thank Dr. Sorb Yesudhas for valuable discussions and fitting of the ambient room-temperature XRD data, Dr. Steven Kelley for the low-temperature laboratory-based XRD measurements, and Dr. Sergey Tkachev, GSECARS, APS for Ne gas loading in the DAC.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

    Randy Burns, Ashutosh Dahal, Deepak K. Singh & Suchismita Guha

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, 7535, South Africa

    Siphelo Ngqoloda & Christopher J. Arendse

  3. University of Chicago, GeoSoilEnviro Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Barbara Lavina

  4. X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60349, USA

    Barbara Lavina

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Burns, R., Ngqoloda, S., Arendse, C.J. et al. Probing structure–property relationship in chemical vapor deposited hybrid perovskites by pressure and temperature. Journal of Materials Research 36, 1805–1812 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-021-00229-y

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