Heteroanionic materials by design: progress toward targeted properties

JK Harada, N Charles, KR Poeppelmeier… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The burgeoning field of anion engineering in oxide‐based compounds aims to tune physical
properties by incorporating additional anions of different size, electronegativity, and charge …

Physical aspects of ferroelectric semiconductors for photovoltaic solar energy conversion

P Lopez-Varo, L Bertoluzzi, J Bisquert, M Alexe, M Coll… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Solar energy conversion using semiconductors to fabricate photovoltaic devices relies on
efficient light absorption, charge separation of electron–hole pair carriers or excitons, and …

Large bulk photovoltaic effect and spontaneous polarization of single-layer monochalcogenides

T Rangel, BM Fregoso, BS Mendoza, T Morimoto… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We use a first-principles density functional theory approach to calculate the shift current and
linear absorption of uniformly illuminated single-layer Ge and Sn monochalcogenides. We …

A review on ferroelectric systems for next generation photovoltaic applications

S Pal, NV Sarath, KS Priya… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferroelectric (FE) materials, which are non-centrosymmetric crystal systems with switchable
polarization characterization, are known to show multifunctional application potential in …

Optical investigations and optical constant of nano lithium niobate deposited by spray pyrolysis technique with injection of Li2CO3 and Nb2O5 as raw materials

MA Fakhri, ET Salim, MHA Wahid, U Hashim… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - Springer
This paper explored physical properties of LiNbO 3 thin films that was deposited on quartz
substrate employing spray pyrolysis technique. New raw materials were exploited as the …

Increasing bulk photovoltaic current by strain tuning

S Nadupalli, J Kreisel, T Granzow - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Photovoltaic phenomena are widely exploited not only for primary energy generation but
also in photocatalytic, photoelectrochemistry, or optoelectronic applications. In contrast to …

First-principles study on the structural, elastic, electronic and optical properties of LiNbO3

MM Hossain - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
The structural, electronic, elastic, mechanical and optical properties of technologically
important lithium niobate (LiNbO 3) have been investigated by using the first-principle …

Enhancement of the bulk photovoltaic effect in topological insulators

LZ Tan, AM Rappe - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We investigate the shift current bulk photovoltaic response of materials close to a band
inversion topological phase transition. We find that the bulk photocurrent reverses direction …

Shift current response in elemental two-dimensional ferroelectrics

Z Qian, J Zhou, H Wang, S Liu - npj Computational Materials, 2023 - nature.com
A bulk material without inversion symmetry can generate a direct current under illumination.
This interface-free current generation mechanism, referred to as the bulk photovoltaic effect …

Effect of external pressure on the structural stability, electronic structure, band gap engineering and optical properties of LiNbO3: an ab-initio calculation

SSA Gillani, R Ahmad, I Zeba, M Shakil… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
A detailed theoretical investigation to explore the effects of external pressure (0.0 GPa, 2.5
GPa, 5.0 GPa, 7.5 GPa, 10GPa, 12.5 GPa, 15GPa, 17.5 GPa, 20GPa and 25GPa) on …