Communications Materials (Oct 2022)

Nanomechanical signatures of degradation-free influence of water on halide perovskite mechanics

  • Isaac Buchine,
  • Irit Rosenhek-Goldian,
  • Naga Prathibha Jasti,
  • Davide R. Ceratti,
  • Sujit Kumar,
  • David Cahen,
  • Sidney R. Cohen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00287-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Humidity can change the properties of halide perovskites used in functional devices. Here, indentation experiments reveal that humidity causes an increase in elastic modulus and a decrease in hardness, which is correlated to bond length, hydrogen bonding and polarizability of the ions.