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A lead-halide perovskite molecular ferroelectric semiconductor

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  • Wei-Qiang Liao

    (Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University)

  • Yi Zhang

    (Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University)

  • Chun-Li Hu

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, The Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Jiang-Gao Mao

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, The Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Heng-Yun Ye

    (Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University)

  • Peng-Fei Li

    (Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University)

  • Songping D. Huang

    (Kent State University)

  • Ren-Gen Xiong

    (Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University
    Kent State University)

Abstract

Inorganic semiconductor ferroelectrics such as BiFeO3 have shown great potential in photovoltaic and other applications. Currently, semiconducting properties and the corresponding application in optoelectronic devices of hybrid organo-plumbate or stannate are a hot topic of academic research; more and more of such hybrids have been synthesized. Structurally, these hybrids are suitable for exploration of ferroelectricity. Therefore, the design of molecular ferroelectric semiconductors based on these hybrids provides a possibility to obtain new or high-performance semiconductor ferroelectrics. Here we investigated Pb-layered perovskites, and found the layer perovskite (benzylammonium)2PbCl4 is ferroelectric with semiconducting behaviours. It has a larger ferroelectric spontaneous polarization Ps=13 μC cm−2 and a higher Curie temperature Tc=438 K with a band gap of 3.65 eV. This finding throws light on the new properties of the hybrid organo-plumbate or stannate compounds and provides a new way to develop new semiconductor ferroelectrics.

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  • Wei-Qiang Liao & Yi Zhang & Chun-Li Hu & Jiang-Gao Mao & Heng-Yun Ye & Peng-Fei Li & Songping D. Huang & Ren-Gen Xiong, 2015. "A lead-halide perovskite molecular ferroelectric semiconductor," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-7, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms8338
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8338
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