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Structure and binding in halide perovskites: Analysis of static and dynamic effects from dispersion-corrected density functional theory

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We investigate the impact of various levels of approximation in density functional theory calculations for the structural and binding properties of the prototypical halide perovskite MAPbI3. Specifically, we test how… Click to show full abstract

We investigate the impact of various levels of approximation in density functional theory calculations for the structural and binding properties of the prototypical halide perovskite MAPbI3. Specifically, we test how the inclusion of different correction schemes for including dispersive interactions, and how in addition using hybrid density functional theory, affects the results for pertinent structural observables by means of comparison to experimental data. In particular, the impact of finite temperature on the lattice constants and bulk modulus, and the role of dispersive interactions in calculating them, is examined by using molecular dynamics based on density functional theory. Our findings confirm previous theoretical work showing that including dispersive corrections is crucial for accurate calculation of structural and binding properties of MAPbI3. They, furthermore, highlight that using a computationally much more expensive hybrid density functional has only minor consequences for these observables. This allows for suggesting the use of semilocal density functional theory, augmented by pairwise dispersive corrections, as a reasonable choice for structurally more complicated calculations of halide perovskites. Using this method, we perform molecular dynamics calculations and discuss the dynamic effect of molecular rotation on the structure of and binding in MAPbI3, which allows for rationalizing microscopically the simultaneous occurrence of a cubic octahedral symmetry and methylammonium disorder.We investigate the impact of various levels of approximation in density functional theory calculations for the structural and binding properties of the prototypical halide perovskite MAPbI3. Specifically, we test how the inclusion of different correction schemes for including dispersive interactions, and how in addition using hybrid density functional theory, affects the results for pertinent structural observables by means of comparison to experimental data. In particular, the impact of finite temperature on the lattice constants and bulk modulus, and the role of dispersive interactions in calculating them, is examined by using molecular dynamics based on density functional theory. Our findings confirm previous theoretical work showing that including dispersive corrections is crucial for accurate calculation of structural and binding properties of MAPbI3. They, furthermore, highlight that using a computationally much more expensive hybrid density functional has only minor consequences for these observabl...

Keywords: density functional; density; structural binding; functional theory; binding properties

Journal Title: APL Materials
Year Published: 2019

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