CH
3NH
3PbI
3is one of the most promising candidates for high-performance hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells. The CH
3NH
3PbI
3single crystal and polycrystalline thin film exhibit the unique features of long carrier lifetimes and diffusion lengths, however, their carrier mobilities are in fact rather modest in a range from 1 cm
2·V
–1·s
–1to 100 cm
2·V
–1·s
–1. Experimentally, the temperature dependence of mobility is described as T
–1.3to T
–1.6due to the acoustic phonon scattering. To be sure, the rotating CH
3NH
${}_3^+ $
cations are disadvantageous to the carrier transport and performance for CH
3NH
3PbI
3solar cells. The effect of the rotating CH
3NH
${}_3^+ $
cations on high-performance CH
3NH
3PbI
3solar cells remains an open question. The Gaussian 09 software has been utilized to optimize the geometrical structures of CH
3NH
3dimer, trimer, tetramer, and pentamer in isolated state at the MP2 level with using the cc-PVTZ basis set. For CH
3NH
3polymer, the mean distance between two centroids of neighboring CH
3NH
3decreasing with the number of CH
3NH
3is slightly smaller than the lattice constant 6.28 Å of tetragonal CH
3NH
3PbI
3, which is advantageous to structural stability and higher structural order of inorganic [PbI3]
–framework. It signifies that the long range order of electrically neutral CH
3NH
3is easily formed for room-temperature CH
3NH
3PbI
3. The total dipole moment linearly increases with the number of CH
3NH
3for CH
3NH
3polymer, and attains a large value 19.7 Debye for CH
3NH
3pentamer, which may be the origin of strong polarization in CH
3NH
3PbI
3heterojunction. The molecular orbitals of five unpaired electrons for CH
3NH
3pentamer are distributed around NH
3-sides of five different CH
3NH
3pentamers respectively, and these orbital energies are in a range from –4.4 eV to –3.2 eV. The unpaired electrons in CH
3NH
3polymer have an electrostatic attraction on the CH
3-side of neighboring CH
3NH
3, which is the key cause of forming the ordered CH
3NH
3polymer. Hence it can be inferred that the orbital energies of unpaired electrons are getting closer when the longer range order of CH
3NH
3are formed in room-temperature CH
3NH
3PbI
3through the interfacial electron injection. The vector field map of electrostatic potential (ESP) shows that CH
3NH
${}_3^+ $
has strong electrophilic character, and the NH
3-side has a stronger electrophilic character than CH
3-side, however, CH
3NH
3monomer and polymer have weak electrophilic and nucleophilic character. Thus, the forming of CH
3NH
3polymer at the CH
3NH
3PbI
3heterojunction leads the organic and inorganic portions to be decoupled, which can effectively reduce the anharmonic phonon modes. Under an applied electric field, the unpaired electrons in CH
3NH
3pentamer can transfer along the C-N axis through the hopping mechanism. According to these results, we can draw three useful conclusions below. i) The electrons under an applied electric field are easily injected into the CH
3NH
3PbI
3material through the heterojunction, the CH
3NH
3polymer is easily formed, and the unpaired electrons in polymer are transferred between two neighboring CH
3NH
3through hopping mechanism. ii) The decoupling between organic CH
3NH
3and inorganic [PbI3]
–framework can effectively reduce the anharmonic phonon modes, which can lead the carrier scattering decrease and the efficiency of carrier separation and transport to improve; iii) The ordered CH
3NH
3polymer at the CH
3NH
3PbI
3heterojunction can enhance the order of inorganic [PbI3]
–framework. Our researches may help to further understand the origin of high power conversion efficiency (PCE) for hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells.