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Phase-Selective Solution Synthesis of Perovskite-Related Cesium Cadmium Chloride Nanoparticles
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posted on 2020-08-06, 22:19 authored by Cameron
F. Holder, Julian Fanghanel, Yihuang Xiong, Ismaila Dabo, Raymond E. SchaakAll-inorganic metal halide perovskite-related
phases are semiconducting materials that are of significant interest
for a wide range of applications. Nanoparticles of these materials
are particularly useful because they permit solution processing while
offering unique and tunable properties. Of the many metal halide systems
that have been studied extensively, cesium cadmium chlorides remain
underexplored, and synthetic routes to access them as nanoscale materials
have not been established. Here we demonstrate that a simple solution-phase
reaction involving the injection of a cesium oleate solution into
a cadmium chloride solution produces three distinct cesium cadmium
chlorides: hexagonal CsCdCl3 and the Ruddlesden–Popper
layered perovskites Cs2CdCl4 and Cs3Cd2Cl7. The phase-selective synthesis emerges
from differences in reagent concentrations, temperature, and injection
rates. A key variable is the rate at which the cesium oleate solution
is injected into the cadmium chloride solution, which is believed
to influence the local Cs:Cd concentration during precipitation, leading
to control over the phase that forms. Band structure calculations
indicate that hexagonal CsCdCl3 is a direct band gap semiconductor
while Cs2CdCl4 and Cs3Cd2Cl7 have indirect band gaps. The experimentally determined
band gap values for CsCdCl3, Cs2CdCl4, and Cs3Cd2Cl7 are 5.13, 4.91,
and 4.70 eV, respectively, which places them in a rare category of
ultrawide-band-gap semiconductors.
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cadmium chloride solutionperovskites Cs 2 CdCl 4band structure calculationsCs 2 CdCl 4materialPhase-Selective Solution Synthesiscesium cadmium chloridesCs 3 Cd 2 Cl 7cesium oleate solutionCsCdCl 3band gap valuesinjectionband gap semiconductorconcentrationPerovskite-Related Cesium Cadmium C...metal halide systems
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