Effective-mass model and magneto-optical properties in hybrid perovskites

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 28576
• Main Author: Yu, Z. G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 24-06-2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/301/1034; 639/301/299/946; Asymmetry; Crystal structure; Humanities and Social Sciences; Magnetic fields; multidisciplinary; Optical properties; Phase transitions; Photovoltaics; Science; Semiconductors; Symmetry; Temperature
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/srep28576

Hybrid inorganic-organic perovskites have proven to be a revolutionary material for low-cost photovoltaic applications. They also exhibit many other interesting properties, including giant Rashba splitting, large-radius Wannier excitons and novel magneto-optical effects. Understanding these properties as well as the detailed mechanism of photovoltaics requires a reliable and accessible electronic structure, on which models of transport, excitonic and magneto-optical properties can be efficiently developed. Here we construct an effective-mass model for the hybrid perovskites based on the group theory, experiment and first-principles calculations. Using this model, we relate the Rashba splitting with the inversion-asymmetry parameter in the tetragonal perovskites, evaluate anisotropic
g
-factors for both conduction and valence bands and elucidate the magnetic-field effect on photoluminescence and its dependence on the intensity of photoexcitation. The diamagnetic effect of exciton is calculated for an arbitrarily strong magnetic field. The pronounced excitonic peak emerged at intermediate magnetic fields in cyclotron resonance is assigned to the 3
D
±2
states, whose splitting can be used to estimate the difference in the effective masses of electron and hole.