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Title: Quasiparticle Band Structure and Phonon-Induced Band Gap Renormalization of the Lead-Free Halide Double Perovskite Cs2InAgCl6
Authors: Ha, Viet Anh 
Volonakis, George 
Lee, Hyungjun 
Zacharias, Marios 
Giustino, Feliciano 
Major Field of Science: Engineering and Technology
Field Category: Materials Engineering
Keywords: Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions;Perovskite;Doping;Light emission properties;Phonon-induced gap
Issue Date: 7-Oct-2021
Source: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, vol. 125, no. 39, pp. 21689-21700
Volume: 125
Issue: 39
Start page: 21689
End page: 21700
Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 
Abstract: The lead-free halide double perovskite Cs2InAgCl6 was recently designed in silico and subsequently synthesized in the lab. This perovskite is a wide-gap semiconductor with a direct band gap and exhibits extraordinary photoluminescence in the visible range upon Na doping. The light emission properties of Cs2InAgCl6 have successfully been exploited to fabricate stable single-emitter-based white-light LEDs with near unity quantum efficiency. An intriguing puzzle in the photophysics of this compound is that the onset of optical absorption is around 3 eV, but the luminescence peak is found around 2 eV. As a first step toward elucidating this mismatch and clarifying the atomic-scale mechanisms underpinning the observed luminescence, here, we report a detailed investigation of the quasiparticle band structure of Cs2InAgCl6 as well as the phonon-induced renormalization of the band structure. We perform calculations of bang gaps and effective masses using the GW method, and we calculate the phonon-induced band structure renormalization using the special displacement method. We find that GW calculations are rather sensitive to the functional used in the density functional theory calculations and that self-consistency on the eigenvalues is necessary to achieve quantitative agreement with experiments. Our most accurate band gap at room temperature is in the range of 3.1-3.2 eV and includes a phonon-induced gap renormalization of 0.2 eV. By computing the phonon-induced mass enhancement, we find that the electron carriers are in the weak polaronic coupling regime, while hole carriers are in the intermediate coupling regime as a result of the localized and directional nature of the Ag eg 4d states at the valence band top.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/24310
ISSN: 19327447
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06542
Rights: © American Chemical Society
Type: Article
Affiliation : University of Texas at Austin 
Université de Rennes 
Cyprus University of Technology 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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