Inversion symmetry and bulk Rashba effect in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite single crystals

The high performance of hybrid perovskite solar cells has attracted significant attention but the nature of the underlying mechanisms remains unclear. Frohna et al. show methylammonium lead iodide perovskite is centrosymmetric, invalidating previous predictions of a large bulk Rashba effect.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kyle Frohna, Tejas Deshpande, John Harter, Wei Peng, Bradford A. Barker, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Steven G. Louie, Osman M. Bakr, David Hsieh, Marco Bernardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04212-w