Emerging halide perovskite ferroelectrics

W Zheng, X Wang, X Zhang, B Chen, H Suo… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Halide perovskites have gained tremendous attention in the past decade owing to their
excellent properties in optoelectronics. Recently, a fascinating property, ferroelectricity, has …

Oxide perovskites, double perovskites and derivatives for electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics

WJ Yin, B Weng, J Ge, Q Sun, Z Li… - Energy & Environmental …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Searching for novel functional materials represents an important direction in the research
and development of renewable energy. Due to their unique structural and compositional …

Design Insights into La2NiMnO6-Based Perovskite Solar Cells Employing Different Charge Transport Layers: DFT and SCAPS-1D Frameworks

MK Hossain, AA Arnab, DP Samajdar… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nontoxic and inorganic lead-free double perovskite La2NiMnO6 (LNMO) has achieved
tremendous attention as an absorber layer of a solar cell (SC) structure due to its …

Ferroelectric Polarization in BaTiO3 Nanocrystals Controls Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

S Assavachin, FE Osterloh - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ferroelectric (FE) semiconductors such as BaTiO3 support a remnant polarization after the
application of an electric field that can promote the separation of photogenerated charge …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the optical bandgap of semiconductors and the proposal of a unified methodology to its determination

AR Zanatta - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Along the last two centuries, the story of semiconductor materials ranged from a mix of
disbelief and frustration to one of the most successful technological achievements ever …

Ferroelectric photovoltaic materials and devices

X Han, Y Ji, Y Yang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric materials have been a focus of much research over the last few decades for
their unique piezoelectric and optoelectronic properties. Conventional solar cells have been …

Controllable electrical, magnetoelectric and optical properties of BiFeO3 via domain engineering

Y Liu, Y Wang, J Ma, S Li, H Pan, CW Nan… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO 3, BFO) as one of the few single-phase room-temperature
multiferroics, has aroused ever-increasing enthusiasm in research communities during the …

Energy conversion approaches and materials for high-efficiency photovoltaics

MA Green, SP Bremner - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past five years have seen significant cost reductions in photovoltaics and a
correspondingly strong increase in uptake, with photovoltaics now positioned to provide one …

2D homologous perovskites as light-absorbing materials for solar cell applications

DH Cao, CC Stoumpos, OK Farha… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report on the fabrication and properties of the semiconducting 2D (CH3 (CH2) 3NH3) 2
(CH3NH3) n–1Pb n I3 n+ 1 (n= 1, 2, 3, and 4) perovskite thin films. The band gaps of the …

Remarkably enhanced photocatalytic performance of Au/AgNbO3 heterostructures by coupling piezotronic with plasmonic effects

S Li, Z Zhao, M Liu, X Liu, W Huang, S Sun, Y Jiang… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Both localized surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect in noble metal nanostructures and
piezotronic effect in piezoelectric semiconductors have been proven to be effective in …