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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1039/D3SC00132F.].
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Halide double perovskites are a promising class of semiconducting materials for applications in solar cells and other optoelectronic devices. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in these materials to study phenomena beyond optoelectronics, especially magnetism. Here, we report three new Mo3+ (4d3) based chloride double perovskites: a 3-D rock-salt ordered Cs2NaMoCl6, a 1-D chain (MA)2AgMoCl6 and a Dion-Jacobson type 2-D layered (1,4-BDA)2AgMoCl8 (MA = methylammonium; 1,4-BDA = 1,4-butanediammonium). Their structures and dimensionalities can be tuned by means of the A-cation. The measured bandgaps are relatively narrow (2.0-2.1 eV) which show a blueshift on reducing the dimensionality. At low temperatures, we observe antiferromagnetic coupling between the nearest-neighbour Mo3+ ions in all these systems. Cs2NaMoCl6 shows stronger coupling with a frustration index f of 5 which we attribute to the geometrically frustrating fcc lattice of Mo3+ ions. This work expands the scope of halide double perovskites beyond main group metals and beyond optoelectronics, and we hope that it will lead to future developments in magnetic halide perovskites.
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Hybrid layered double perovskite (HLDP) halides comprise hexacoordinated 1+ and 3+ metals in the octahedral sites within a perovskite layer and organic amine cations between the layers. Progress on such materials has hitherto been limited to compounds containing main group 3+ ions isoelectronic with PbII (such as SbIII and BiIII). Here, we report eight HLDP halides from the A2MIMIIIX8 family, where A = para-phenylenediammonium (PPDA), 1,4-butanediammonium (1,4-BDA), or 1,3-propanediammonium (1,3-PDA); MI = Cu or Ag; MIII = Ru or Mo; X = Cl or Br. The optical band gaps, which lie in the range 1.55 to 2.05 eV, are tunable according to the layer composition, but are largely independent of the spacer. Magnetic measurements carried out for (PPDA)2AgIRuIIICl8 and (PPDA)2AgIMoIIICl8 show no obvious evidence of a magnetic ordering transition. While the t2g3 MoIII compound displays Curie-Weiss behavior for a spin-only d3 ion, the t2g5 RuIII compound displays marked deviations from the Kotani theory.
