In recent years, there has been an impressively fast technological progress in the development of highly efficient lead halide perovskite solar cells. Nonetheless, the stability of perovskite films and associated solar cells remains a source of uncertainty and necessitates sophisticated characterization techniques. Here, we report low- to mid-frequency resonant Raman spectra of formamidinium-based lead mixed-halide perovskites. The assignment of the different Raman lines in the measured spectra is assisted by DFT simulations of the Raman spectra of suitable periodic model systems. An important result of this work is that both experiment and theory point to an increase of the stability of the perovskite structure with increasing chloride doping concentration. In the Raman spectra, this is reflected by the appearance of new lines due to the formation of hydrogen bonds. Thus, higher chloride doping results in less torsional motion and lower asymmetric bending contributing to higher stability. This study yields a solid basis for the interpretation of the Raman spectra of formamidinium-based mixed-halide perovskites, furthering the understanding of the properties of these materials, which is essential for their full exploitation in solar cells.
Keywords: Raman spectroscopy; density functional theory; metal mixed-halide perovskites; solar cells; structural stability..
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