Rapid growth of the CH3NH3PbCl3 single crystal by microwave irradiation

Moch Wisnu Arif Sektiono; Fitri Aulia Permatasari; Akfiny Hasdi Aimon; Ferry Iskandar

doi:10.1039/d0ra09328a

Rapid growth of the CH₃NH₃PbCl₃ single crystal by microwave irradiation

RSC Adv. 2021 Jan 5;11(3):1360-1366. doi: 10.1039/d0ra09328a. eCollection 2021 Jan 4.

Authors

Moch Wisnu Arif Sektiono^{1

2}, Fitri Aulia Permatasari¹, Akfiny Hasdi Aimon¹, Ferry Iskandar^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Institut Teknologi Bandung Bandung 40132 Indonesia.
² PSDKU Kediri-Politeknik Negeri Malang Kediri 64114 Indonesia.
³ Research Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Bandung 40132 Indonesia ferry@fi.itb.ac.id.

Abstract

We report a rapid growth of the CH₃NH₃PbCl₃ single crystal through microwave irradiation. A systematic evaluation of the structural and optical properties of the obtained single crystal was also conducted. 1 minute is the optimum microwave irradiation time that generated a large single crystal of dimension (5 × 5 × 2.5) mm³. The obtained crystal exhibits broad absorption in UV range and near-visible light luminescence under UV excitation with an optical bandgap around 2.8 eV. A fast and simple synthesis method of CH₃NH₃PbCl₃ single crystal with these outstanding properties could be potentially applied for any optoelectronic application with scale-up production.