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Wenjuan Wei1, Wei Li1, Keith T Butler2
1School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Abstract:
The driving forces for the phase transitions of ABX3 hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have been limited to the octahedral tilting, order-disorder, and displacement. Now, a complex structural phase transition has been explored in a HOIP, [CH3 NH3 ][Mn(N3 )3 ], based on structural characterizations and ab initio lattice dynamics calculations. This unusual first-order phase transition between two ordered phases at about 265 K is primarily driven by changes in the collective atomic vibrations of the whole lattice, along with concurrent molecular displacements and an unusual octahedral tilting. A significant entropy difference (4.35 J K-1 mol-1 ) is observed between the low- and high-temperature structures induced by such atomic vibrations, which plays a main role in driving the transition. This finding offers an alternative pathway for designing new ferroic phase transitions and related physical properties in HOIPs and other hybrid crystals.
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