A High-Throughput Computational Dataset of Halide Perovskite Alloys

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive DFT-based dataset of 495 halide perovskite alloys, analyzing their stability and optoelectronic properties to guide the design of improved materials for optoelectronic applications.

Contribution

It provides one of the most extensive open-source datasets of halide perovskite alloys, including detailed calculations and analysis for materials design and screening.

Findings

Identified promising compositions with optimal stability and optoelectronic properties.

Analyzed effects of site mixing and elemental fractions on material properties.

Established design principles for high-performance halide perovskite alloys.

Abstract

Novel halide perovskites with improved stability and optoelectronic properties can be designed via composition engineering at cation and/or anion sites. Data-driven methods, especially high-throughput first principles computations and subsequent analysis based on unique materials descriptors, are key to achieving this goal. In this work, we report a density functional theory (DFT) based dataset of 495 $ABX_3$ halide perovskite compounds, with various atomic and molecular species considered at A, B and X sites, and different amounts of mixing applied at each site using the special quasirandom structures (SQS) approach for alloys. We perform GGA-PBE calculations on all 495 pseudo-cubic perovskite structures and around 250 calculations using the HSE06 functional, with and without spin-orbit coupling, both including geometry optimization and static calculations on PBE optimized structures. Lattice constants, decomposition energy, band gap, and theoretical photovoltaic efficiency, are computed using each level of theory, and comparisons are made with collected experimental values. Trends in the data are unraveled in terms of the effects of mixing at different sites, fractions of specific elemental or molecular species present in the compound, and averaged physical properties of species at different sites. We perform screening across the perovskite dataset based on multiple definitions of tolerance factors, deviation from cubicity, computed stability and optoelectronic properties, leading to a list of promising compositions and design principles for achieving multiple desired properties. Our multi-objective, multi-fidelity, computational halide perovskite alloy dataset, one of the most comprehensive to date, is available open-source, and currently being used to train predictive and optimization models for accelerating the design of novel compositions for superior optoelectronic applications.