Nonreciprocal transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials

N Nagaosa, Y Yanase - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In noncentrosymmetric materials, the responses (for example, electrical and optical)
generally depend on the direction of the external stimuli, called nonreciprocal phenomena …

Recent progress in the theory of bulk photovoltaic effect

Z Dai, AM Rappe - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) occurs in solids with broken inversion symmetry and
refers to DC generation due to uniform illumination, without the need of heterostructures or …

Flexo-photovoltaic effect in MoS2

J Jiang, Z Chen, Y Hu, Y Xiang, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The theoretical Shockley–Queisser limit of photon–electricity conversion in a
conventional p–n junction could be potentially overcome by the bulk photovoltaic effect that …

Zero-bias mid-infrared graphene photodetectors with bulk photoresponse and calibration-free polarization detection

J Wei, Y Li, L Wang, W Liao, B Dong, C Xu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), featuring polarization-dependent uniform photoresponse at
zero external bias, holds potential for exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit in the efficiency …

Large Bulk Piezophotovoltaic Effect of Monolayer 2H-MoS2

AM Schankler, L Gao, AM Rappe - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The bulk photovoltaic effect in noncentrosymmetric materials is an intriguing physical
phenomenon that holds potential for high-efficiency energy harvesting. Here, we study the …

Geometric aspects of nonlinear and nonequilibrium phenomena

T Morimoto, S Kitamura, N Nagaosa - Journal of the Physical Society …, 2023 - journals.jps.jp
We review recent developments in the research of nonlinear and nonequilibrium
phenomena in solids focusing on their geometrical aspects. We start with introducing the …

Recent progress of bulk photovoltaic effect in acentric single crystals and optoelectronic devices

Y Dang, X Tao - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Acentric materials with bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) have recently emerged as a class of
promising optoelectronic materials due to broken inversion symmetry. In this review, we …

Phonon-assisted ballistic current from first-principles calculations

Z Dai, AM Schankler, L Gao, LZ Tan, AM Rappe - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) refers to current generation due to illumination by light in
a homogeneous bulk material lacking inversion symmetry. In addition to the intensively …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Spin photovoltaic effect in antiferromagnetic materials: Mechanisms, symmetry constraints, and recent progress

RC Xiao, YJ Jin, H Jiang - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials possess unique properties, such as rapid dynamic
response, resistance to external magnetic disturbances, and the absence of a stray field …