Exploiting the bulk photovoltaic effect in a 2D trilayered hybrid ferroelectric for highly sensitive polarized light detection

Y Peng, X Liu, Z Sun, C Ji, L Li, Z Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polarized light detection is attracting increasing attention for its wide applications ranging
from optical switches to high‐resolution photodetectors. Two‐dimensional (2D) hybrid …

Giant exciton-enhanced shift currents and direct current conduction with subbandgap photo excitations produced by many-electron interactions

YH Chan, DY Qiu, FH da Jornada… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Shift current is a direct current generated from nonlinear light–matter interaction in a
noncentrosymmetric crystal and is considered a promising candidate for next-generation …

Design principles for shift current photovoltaics

AM Cook, B M. Fregoso, F De Juan, S Coh… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
While the basic principles of conventional solar cells are well understood, little attention has
gone towards maximizing the efficiency of photovoltaic devices based on shift currents. By …

Bulk photovoltaic effect in chiral layered hybrid perovskite enables highly sensitive near-infrared circular polarization photodetection

H Ye, Y Peng, M Wei, X Zhang, T Zhu… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), as a form of optoelectronic conversion phenomenon
mostly appearing in polar materials, has shown tremendous potential in applications of solar …

First-principles calculation of the bulk photovoltaic effect in bismuth ferrite

SM Young, F Zheng, AM Rappe - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We compute the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) in BiFeO 3 using first-principles shift current
theory, finding good agreement with experimental results. Furthermore, we reconcile …

Spin photocurrents in quantum wells

SD Ganichev, W Prettl - Journal of physics: Condensed matter, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Spin photocurrents generated by homogeneous optical excitation with circularly polarized
radiation in quantum wells (QWs) are reviewed. The absorption of circularly polarized light …

Ultrafast terahertz emission from emerging symmetry-broken materials

J Pettine, P Padmanabhan, N Sirica… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical spectroscopies are powerful tools for investigating both static material
properties and light-induced dynamics. Terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy has …

Consequences of time-reversal-symmetry breaking in the light-matter interaction: Berry curvature, quantum metric, and diabatic motion

T Holder, D Kaplan, B Yan - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Nonlinear optical response is well studied in the context of semiconductors and has gained
a renaissance in studies of topological materials in the recent decade. So far it mainly deals …

The physics of ultra-short laser interaction with solids at non-relativistic intensities

EG Gamaly - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
The interaction of ultra-fast sub-picosecond laser pulses with solids is a very broad area of
research. The boundaries for research fields covered by this review are defined as follows. A …

Mutual insight on ferroelectrics and hybrid halide perovskites: a platform for future multifunctional energy conversion

R Pandey, G Vats, J Yun, CR Bowen… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
An insight into the analogies, state‐of‐the‐art technologies, concepts, and prospects under
the umbrella of perovskite materials (both inorganic–organic hybrid halide perovskites and …