Abstract
Due to its high chemical stability and high power conversion efficiency as a solar cell absorber, the inorganic halide perovskite, CsPbI3, is considered one of the most promising competitors to its hybrid organic-inorganic counterpart, CH3NH3PbI3. However, the phase transition from the photoactive black phase to the inactive yellow phase is a remarkable limitation that harms long-term phase stability. In particular, the phase transitions follow different pathways as the temperature increases and/or decreases, a phenomenon that is anomalous and remains poorly understood. In this study, we systematically calculated the temperature-dependent free energy of CsPbI3 in different crystal phases (α, β, γ, δ) by considering the phonon contribution to the Gibbs free energy. It is found that the free energy results from calculations that include harmonic phonons cannot reproduce experimental observations. Alternatively, we utilized the renormalized phonon quasiparticle approach to derive the free energies of different CsPbI3 phases at finite temperatures. Based on these calculated free energies, whose derivations included the anharmonic effect, we observed phase-transition processes consistent with experimental results. The analysis of the temperature effect on the phonon frequencies further demonstrated that anharmonic effects in the CsPbI3 had a significant influence on its phase transitions.
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