Anomalous Octahedron Distortion of Bi-Alloyed Cs₂AgInCl₆ Crystal via XRD, Raman, Huang–Rhys Factor, and Photoluminescence

Abstract

The refinement of XRD patterns only provides the average structure parameters for the alloying materials because of the symmetric protection. Raman vibrational modes can append the detailed information about the bond length and structure. The refinements of XRD patterns for Bi alloying Cs₂AgInCl₆ revealed the strong structure distortion with the enlarged octahedron of In(Bi)Cl₆ and the contracted octahedron of AgCl₆ with the increasing Bi. Raman spectra supported the expanded octahedron of InCl₆ and the reduced octahedron of AgCl₆ but identified the anomalous shortening bond length of Bi-Cl with the increasing Bi. These distorting octahedrons break parity forbidden transition, modify Huang-Rhys factor, and result in the maximum values at 30% Bi alloying and the same variation trend for both photoluminescence and Huang-Rhys factor with the increasing Bi alloying.