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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Solid-State Chemistry
Crystallography

Background:

Layered perovskite heterostructures offer a scalable route to emergent properties.
Mechanically stacked monolayers have shown promising emergent properties.

Purpose of the Study:

To synthesize and characterize novel single-crystal layered perovskite heterostructures.
To investigate the influence of structural variations on electronic and optical properties.
To explore the tunability of quantum-well structures and exciton behavior.

Main Methods:

Single-crystal synthesis of M 2(PbCl 2)(AMCHC) 2(PbCl 4) ·2H 2O (1_M) heterostructures.
X-ray crystallography to determine crystal structure (chiral, polar space group C2).
Computational methods (band structure calculations) to analyze electronic properties and quantum-well structures.

Main Results:

Two new heterostructures (1_Na and 1_Li) were synthesized, featuring alternating perovskite and intergrowth layers.
Both heterostructures exhibit wide bandgaps, distinct excitonic features, and strong second harmonic generation.
1_Na displays a Type-I quantum-well structure with intralayer excitons, while 1_Li shows a Type-II structure with interlayer excitons.

Conclusions:

The band alignment and exciton localization can be tuned by altering alkali metal cations and water molecule orientation.
These findings provide a pathway to control band alignment in self-assembled bulk perovskite heterostructures.
The synthesized materials hold potential for applications in optoelectronics and nonlinear optics.