Longo, Giulia, Whalley, Lucy, Holland, Adam, Tiwari, Devendra, Durose, Ken, Hutter, Oliver and Kayastha, Prakriti (2023) High temperature equilibrium of 3D and 2D chalcogenide perovskites. Solar RRL, 7 (9). p. 2201078. ISSN 2367-198X
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Abstract
Chalcogenide perovskites have been recently proposed as novel absorber materials for photovoltaic applications. BaZrS3, the most investigated compound of this family, shows a high absorption coefficient, a bandgap of around 1.8 eV, and excellent stability. In addition to the 3D perovskite BaZrS3, the Ba–Zr–S compositional space contains various 2D Ruddlesden–Popper phases Ban + 1ZrnS3n + 1 (with n = 1, 2, 3) which have recently been reported. Herein, it is shown that at high temperature the Gibbs free energies of 3D and 2D perovskites are very close, suggesting that 2D phases can be easily formed at high temperatures. The product of the BaS and ZrS2 solid-state reaction, in different stoichiometric conditions, presents a mixture of BaZrS3 and Ba4Zr3S10. To carefully resolve the composition, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis are complemented with Raman spectroscopy. For this purpose, the phonon dispersions, and the consequent Raman spectra, are calculated for the 3D and 2D chalcogenide perovskites, as well as for the binary precursors. This thorough characterization demonstrates the thermodynamic limitations and experimental difficulties in forming phase-pure chalcogenide perovskites through solid-state synthesis and the importance of using multiple techniques to soundly resolve the composition of these materials.
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: P.K. and L.D.W. thank Jonathan M. Skelton for discussions on Phonopy‐Spectroscopy. P.K. and G.L. acknowledge support from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) CDT in Renewable Energy Northeast Universities (ReNU) for funding through EPSRC Grant EP/S023836/1. The authors thank Horiba for the support with the Raman measurements. This work used the Oswald High Performance Computing facility operated by Northumbria University (UK). Via our membership of the UK's HEC Materials Chemistry Consortium, which is funded by EPSRC (EP/R029431), this work used the ARCHER2 UK National Supercomputing Service. |
| Subjects: | H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering |
| Depositing User: | John Coen |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2023 14:19 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2023 14:30 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/51410 |
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