Bandgap Control via Structural and Chemical Tuning of Transition Metal Perovskite Chalcogenides.

Niu, Shanyuan; Huyan, Huaixun; Liu, Yang; Yeung, Matthew; Ye, Kevin; Blankemeier, Louis; Orvis, Thomas; Sarkar, Debarghya et al. · Adv Mater · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Transition metal perovskite chalcogenides are a new class of versatile semiconductors with high absorption coefficient and luminescence efficiency. Polycrystalline materials synthesized by an iodine-catalyzed solid-state reaction show distinctive optical colors and tunable bandgaps across the visible range in photoluminescence, with one of the materials' external efficiency approaching the level of single-crystal InP and CdSe.