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arxiv: 2605.27104 · v1 · pith:2BFWPTYUnew · submitted 2026-05-26 · ❄️ cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Origin of the Temperature-Induced Gap Bowing of Formamidinium-Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites: Role of Cationic Rattlers

Kai Xu , Adri\'an Francisco-L\'opez , Bethan L. Charles , M. Isabel Alonso , Miquel Garriga , Mark T. Weller , Alejandro R. Go\~ni This is my paper

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Temperature-induced gap bowing in FA-MA lead iodide perovskites stems mainly from electron-phonon coupling via mixed FA rattler and octahedral tilting modes.

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The paper establishes that the pronounced temperature-induced band gap bowing in mixed formamidinium-methylammonium lead iodide perovskites arises from both thermal expansion and electron-phonon interaction, with the latter as the dominant contribution. This bowing is activated by an anomalous coupling mechanism that involves mixed vibrational modes combining cage phonons with low-frequency FA librations. A sympathetic reader would care because accurate knowledge of how band gaps change with temperature is required to optimize the performance of optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LEDs across operating conditions. The measurements span the full composition range and combine temperature and pressure dependence to separate the two contributions.

Core claim

By performing temperature- and pressure-dependent photoluminescence measurements across the full range of FA_x MA_{1-x} PbI_3 single crystals, the work shows that thermal expansion and electron-phonon effects both contribute to the observed gap bowing, yet the electron-phonon term dominates through activation of mixed vibrational modes that couple inorganic octahedral tilting phonons to low-frequency FA librations (FA rattler modes) in the orthorhombic and pseudotetragonal low-temperature phases.

What carries the argument

Anomalous electron-phonon coupling mechanism linked to mixed vibrational modes that combine inorganic-cage phonons involving octahedral tilting with low-frequency FA librations (FA rattler modes).

If this is right

  • Device band-gap engineering must account for the dominant electron-phonon channel rather than thermal expansion alone.
  • The bowing is confined to the low-temperature phases and therefore affects low-temperature operation and stability windows.
  • Cation mixing between 20 and 90 percent FA enables the stripe-domain geometry that activates the mixed modes.
  • Pressure can be used as an experimental knob to separate lattice-expansion from electron-phonon contributions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar rattler-driven coupling may appear in other hybrid perovskites whenever an organic cation possesses low-frequency libration modes that overlap with cage phonons.
  • Suppressing or shifting the FA libration frequencies through chemical substitution could reduce the bowing and improve temperature stability of the gap.
  • The stripe-domain picture implies that domain engineering or epitaxial strain might modulate the strength of the anomalous coupling.

Load-bearing premise

The anomalous electron-phonon coupling activates only inside the orthorhombic and pseudotetragonal low-temperature phases that contain stripe domains with alternating octahedral tilt patterns for FA fractions between 20 and 90 percent.

What would settle it

If pressure-dependent photoluminescence shifts fail to match the magnitude expected from the electron-phonon contribution once thermal expansion is subtracted, or if the bowing vanishes in samples lacking FA rattler modes.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.27104 by Adri\'an Francisco-L\'opez, Alejandro R. Go\~ni, Bethan L. Charles, Kai Xu, Mark T. Weller, Miquel Garriga, M. Isabel Alonso.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: PL spectra of FAxMA1−xPbI3 single crystals for three selected compositions, namely, (a) x = 0.2, (b) x = 0.5, and (c) x = 1.0, recorded at different temperatures using the red line (633 nm) for excitation. The spectra were normalized to their maximum intensities and plotted with a vertical shift for increasing temperature. The temperature range is indicated (a temperature step of ca. 5 K). High-quality sin… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Maximum PL peak energy position plotted as a function of temperature, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The first derivative of the gap energy with respect to temperature (black-grey [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Revised version of the temperature-versus-composition phase diagram of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_4.png] view at source ↗
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A thorough understanding of the temperature dependence of semiconductor band gaps is essential for optimizing optoelectronic devices. In this respect, the origin of the pronounced temperature-induced gap bowing observed in low-temperature phases of formamidinium-methylammonium (FA-MA) lead iodide perovskites has remained elusive until now. By combining temperature and pressure-dependent photoluminescence measurements on a series of FA$_x$MA$_{1-x}$PbI$_3$ mixed-cation single crystals with $x\in[0,1]$, we unravel the origin of this bowing. Both thermal expansion as well as electron-phonon interaction effects are responsible. However, the latter is the leading term, driven by the activation of an anomalous electron-phonon coupling mechanism linked to mixed vibrational modes, which combine inorganic-cage phonons involving octahedral tilting with low-frequency FA librations, i.e., FA rattler modes. This occurs in the orthorhombic and (pseudo)tetragonal low-temperature phases, presumably featuring stripe domains with alternating octahedral tilt-axis patterns for FA concentrations between 20\% and 90\%. In this way, we have shed light on an intriguing behavior of lead halide perovskites that directly affects their optoelectronic properties.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports temperature- and pressure-dependent photoluminescence measurements on FA_x MA_{1-x} PbI_3 single crystals (x from 0 to 1) and attributes the pronounced low-temperature gap bowing primarily to an anomalous electron-phonon coupling arising from mixed vibrational modes that combine inorganic-cage octahedral tilting phonons with low-frequency FA librations (rattler modes). Both thermal expansion and electron-phonon contributions are identified, but the latter dominates in the orthorhombic and pseudotetragonal phases for 0.2 < x < 0.9, which the authors presume contain stripe domains with alternating octahedral tilt-axis patterns.

Significance. If substantiated, the work supplies a concrete microscopic mechanism for the composition-dependent temperature bowing that directly impacts optoelectronic performance in mixed-cation lead-halide perovskites. The use of combined temperature-pressure PL data to separate thermal-expansion and electron-phonon channels, together with the identification of specific mixed modes, constitutes a useful advance over purely phenomenological descriptions.

major comments (2)
  1. [Discussion / Results (domain presumption)] The central mechanistic claim—that the leading electron-phonon term appears only for 0.2 ≤ x ≤ 0.9 because of activation of mixed octahedral-tilt + FA-libration modes—rests on the microstructural assumption of stripe domains with alternating tilt-axis patterns in the low-T phases. No XRD, TEM, neutron diffraction, or other structural data are cited to establish the existence or periodicity of these domains; the PL linewidths and pressure coefficients alone cannot discriminate this picture from simpler composition-dependent mode softening without long-range domain order.
  2. [Results (temperature dependence)] The assignment of the anomalous coupling specifically to the orthorhombic and (pseudo)tetragonal phases for mixed compositions requires explicit comparison of the measured temperature coefficients against the pure end-members (x=0 and x=1) across the same temperature window; without tabulated values or a figure showing the differential bowing magnitude, it is difficult to quantify how much of the observed bowing is truly anomalous versus a smooth interpolation.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction / Discussion] The abstract states the domain picture with the qualifier 'presumably'; this qualification should be repeated in the main text when the mechanism is first introduced so that readers immediately recognize the assumption.
  2. [Methods / Discussion] Notation for the mixed vibrational modes (e.g., how the FA libration frequency is extracted or coupled to the tilt mode) should be defined consistently with any supporting Raman or DFT references.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments and positive assessment of the significance of our work. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Discussion / Results (domain presumption)] The central mechanistic claim—that the leading electron-phonon term appears only for 0.2 ≤ x ≤ 0.9 because of activation of mixed octahedral-tilt + FA-libration modes—rests on the microstructural assumption of stripe domains with alternating tilt-axis patterns in the low-T phases. No XRD, TEM, neutron diffraction, or other structural data are cited to establish the existence or periodicity of these domains; the PL linewidths and pressure coefficients alone cannot discriminate this picture from simpler composition-dependent mode softening without long-range domain order.

    Authors: We agree that the stripe-domain interpretation is presented as a presumption ('presumably featuring stripe domains') rather than a directly demonstrated feature. The PL and pressure data show that the anomalous electron-phonon contribution is activated only for 0.2 < x < 0.9 in the low-T phases and exhibits pressure coefficients and temperature ranges consistent with mixed FA-libration + octahedral-tilt modes; this composition window and the deviation from end-member behavior provide indirect support. We will revise the text to state more explicitly that the domain picture is a proposed mechanism consistent with the spectroscopic results but that direct structural confirmation is absent and would be required to rule out simpler mode-softening scenarios without long-range order. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Results (temperature dependence)] The assignment of the anomalous coupling specifically to the orthorhombic and (pseudo)tetragonal phases for mixed compositions requires explicit comparison of the measured temperature coefficients against the pure end-members (x=0 and x=1) across the same temperature window; without tabulated values or a figure showing the differential bowing magnitude, it is difficult to quantify how much of the observed bowing is truly anomalous versus a smooth interpolation.

    Authors: Figures 2 and 3 already display the full temperature series for all x values, including the end members, and extract the bowing parameter versus composition at multiple fixed temperatures. To make the differential explicit, we will add a supplementary table of linear temperature coefficients dE_g/dT extracted in the orthorhombic and pseudotetragonal windows for every composition, together with the deviation from linear interpolation between x=0 and x=1. revision: yes

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  • Direct structural data (XRD, TEM, or neutron diffraction) confirming the existence and periodicity of stripe domains with alternating tilt-axis patterns; no such measurements were performed in this study.

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No significant circularity; derivation self-contained from PL data

full rationale

The paper derives its claims from temperature- and pressure-dependent photoluminescence measurements across the FA_x MA_{1-x} PbI_3 series. Attribution of the leading electron-phonon term to mixed octahedral-tilt plus FA-libration modes is presented as an interpretation of the observed bowing behavior, with the stripe-domain microstructure explicitly labeled as a presumption rather than a fitted or self-cited result. No equations reduce a prediction to its own input by construction, no parameters are fitted on one subset and renamed as a prediction on another, and no load-bearing premise rests solely on prior self-citation. The central result therefore remains externally falsifiable against the reported PL and pressure datasets.

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