{"id":6916,"date":"2022-11-23T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:29:12","slug":"fine-structure-of-excitons-in-vacancy-ordered-halide-double-perovskites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/fine-structure-of-excitons-in-vacancy-ordered-halide-double-perovskites\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Structure of Excitons in Vacancy-Ordered Halide Double Perovskites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vacancy-ordered halide double perovskites (VODPs) have been widely explored throughout the past few years as promising lead-free alternatives for optoelectronic applications. Yet, the atomicscale mechanisms that underlie their optical properties remain elusive. In this work, a thorough investigation of the excitonic properties of key members within the VODP family is presented. We employ stateof-the-art ab initio calculations and unveil critical details regarding the role of electron\u2212hole interactions in the electronic and optical properties of VODPs. The materials family is sampled by picking prototypes based on the electronic configuration of the tetravalent metal at the center of the octahedron. Hence, groups with a valence comprised of s, p, and d closed shells are represented by the known materials Cs<sub>2<\/sub>SnX<sub>6<\/sub>, Cs<sub>2<\/sub>TeX<sub>6<\/sub>, and Cs<sub>2<\/sub>ZrX<sub>6<\/sub> (with X = Br, I), respectively. The electronic structure is investigated within the G0W0 many-body Green\u2019s function method, while the Bethe\u2212Salpeter equation is solved to account for electron\u2212hole interactions that play a crucial role in the optical properties of the family. A detailed symmetry analysis unravels the fine structure of excitons for all compounds. The exciton binding energy, excitonic wavefunctions, and the dark\u2212bright splitting are also reported for each material. It is shown that these quantities can be tuned over a wide range, from Wannier- to Frenkel-type excitons, through for example substitutional engineering. In particular, Te-based materials, which share the electronic valency of corner-sharing Pb halide perovskites, are predicted to have exciton binding energies of above 1 eV and a dark\u2212bright splitting of the excitons reaching over 100 meV. Our findings provide a fundamental understanding of the optical properties of the entire family of VODP materials and highlight how these are not, in fact, suitable Pb-free alternatives to traditional halide perovskites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pero2022-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6917 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pero2022-2.png 716w, https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pero2022-2-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Exciton spatial distribution and fine structure.<\/strong> (a) Exciton spatial distribution <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"62\" height=\"17\" src=\"\">\u00a0for the bright exciton. The hole position r<sub>h<\/sub> is fixed in the vicinity of the halogen atoms. The isovalue is set to represent 85% of the total distribution. (b) Calculated exciton oscillator strength with fine structure shown as inset plot. On the right, an illustration of the dark-bright splitting.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Article published in: <em>ACS Materials Letters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsmaterialslett.2c01010\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsmaterialslett.2c01010\">&#8216;Fine Structure of Excitons in Vacancy-Ordered Halide Double Perovskites&#8217;, Bruno Cucco,\u00a0Claudine Katan,\u00a0Jacky Even,\u00a0Mika\u00ebl Kepenekian,\u00a0and\u00a0George Volonakis, <em>ACS Materials Lett.<\/em> 5, 52\u201359 (2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[110,44],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","tag-departement-ohm","tag-perovskites"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fr","en"],"languages":{"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.institut-foton.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}