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We aim to find homovalent alternatives for lead and iodine in CH3NH3PbI3 perovskites that show bandgaps suitable for building novel perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells. To this end, we employ a computational screening for materials with a bandgap between 1.0 eV and 1.9 eV, using density functional theory calculations at the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof and Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof levels of theory. The room-temperature stability of the materials and their phases that satisfy the bandgap criteria is evaluated based on the empirical Goldschmidt tolerance factor. In total, our screening procedure covers 30 different perovskite structures in three phases (orthorhombic, cubic, tetragonal) each. We find 9 materials that are predicted to be stable at room temperature and to have bandgaps in an energy range suitable for application in tandem solar cells. Published by AIP Publishing.
Vibrationally resolved lowest-energy bands of the photoelectron spectra (PES) of adamantane, diamantane, and urotropine were simulated by a time-dependent correlation function approach within the harmonic approximation. Geometries and normal modes for neutral and cationic molecules were obtained from B3LYP hybrid density functional theory (DFT). It is shown that the simulated spectra reproduce the experimentally observed vibrational finestructure (or its absence) quite well. Origins of the finestructure are discussed and related to recurrences of autocorrelation functions and dominant vibrations. Remaining quantitative and qualitative errors of the DFT-derived PES spectra refer to (i) an overall redshift by ∼0.5 eV and (ii) the absence of satellites in the high-energy region of the spectra. The former error is shown to be due to the neglect of many-body corrections to ordinary Kohn-Sham methods, while the latter has been argued to be due to electron-nuclear couplings beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation [Gali et al., Nat. Commun. 7, 11327 (2016)].