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First-Principles Calculations to Investigate the Mechanical Structure and Optical Properties of Lead Halide Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3

Table 1

Computed elastic constants such as C11, C12, C44, bulk modulus (B), shear modulus (G), B/G ratio, Young’s modulus (E), Poisson’s ratio (υ), and anisotropy factor (A).

Computed elastic constantsThis workComputational results, Feng and Ciao, 2014

C1126.8727.1
C128.611.1
C4410.579.2
B15.816.4
E20.622.2
G7.68.7
(υ)0.250.28
B/G2.081.89
A0.6