The structural, electronic, and optical properties of organic–inorganic mixed halide perovskites CH3NH3Pb(I1−yXy)3 (X = Cl, Br)*

Project supported by the Financial Support from the “12th Five-Year” Science and Technology Research Project of the Education Department of Jilin Province (Grant No. [2016] 494) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21173035).

Jiang Miao1, Deng Naihang1, Wang Li1, Xie Haiming1, 2, Qiu Yongqing1, 2, †
       

(a) The crystal structure of orthorhombic CH3NH3PbI3 with PbI6 octahedral. (b) The CH3NH3PbI3 unit cell used for modeling. Panels (c)–(d) display the unique arrangements for CH3NH3Pb(I1−yXy)3 when y = 0.33 and y = 0.67. Structures visualized with VESTA.