The perovskite unit cell is the fundamental building block of many functional materials. The manipulation of this crystal structure is known to be of central importance to controlling many technologically promising phenomena related to superconductivity, multiferroicity, mangetoresistivity, and photovoltaics. The broad range of properties that this structure can exhibit is in part due to the ce...

This study determines the effects of annealing treatment on the structure and the optical and electronic behaviors of the mixed (FAPbI₃)1-x(MAPbBr₃)x perovskite system. The experimental results reveal that (FAPbI₃)1-x(MAPbBr₃)x (x ~ 0.2) is an effective light-absorbing material for use in inverted planar perovskite solar cells owing to its large absorbance and tunable band gap. Therefore, good ...

Perovskite solar cells have revolutionized the fabrication of solution-processable solar cells. The presence of lead in the devices makes this technology less attractive, and alternative metals in perovskites are being researched as suitable alternatives. We demonstrate a new type of tin-based perovskite absorber that incorporates both ethylenediammonium (en) and formamidinium (FA), forming new...

In this study, La–Mn–Cr perovskite-type catalysts were synthesized as LaMnO3,LaCrO3, and LaMn0.5Cr0.5O3 by a microwave-assisted gel-combustion method. They were then calcined at 600oC for 5h in a...

The rare-earth manganites RMnO3 (R = rare earth) are a class of important multiferroics with stable hexagonal structures for small R ion radius (Sc, Lu, Yb, ...). Metastable perovskite phases of these systems possess intriguing electronically driven electrical polarization, but the synthesis of the perovskite phase for the end member ScMnO3 system has proven to be elusive. We report the structu...

In this work, a fully tin-based, mixed-organic-cation perovskite absorber (FA) x (MA)1-x SnI3 (FA = NH2CH = NH2+, MA = CH3NH3+) for lead-free perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with inverted structure is presented. By optimizing the ratio of FA and MA cations, a maximum power conversion efficiency of 8.12% is achieved for the (FA)0.75(MA)0.25SnI3-based device along with a high open-circuit voltage o...

Point defects can affect considerably the structural, magnetic, and transport properties of perovskite-structure materials with chemical formula ABO3. Oxygen vacancies (VO), for example, enable ionic conductivity in perovskite-based solid solutions to be used for electrochemical applications such as solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells [1]. Likewise, VO can distort significantly the equilibr...

Complex transition-metal oxides are important functional materials in areas such as energy and information storage. The cubic ABO3 perovskite is an archetypal example of this class, formed by the occupation of small octahedral B-sites within an AO3 network defined by larger A cations. We show that introduction of chemically mismatched octahedral cations into a cubic perovskite oxide parent phas...

The BaZrxTi1-xO3: Eu 3+ phosphors have been synthesized the conventional solid state reaction method. Mechanoluminescence (ML) and thermoluminescence (TL) in barium zirconium titanate (BZT) system with Europium as dopant is reported for the first time. The BZT system belongs to perovskite family. The samples are prepared in a high temperature furnace at a temperature of 1200 o C. The powder X r...