Substantial bulk photovoltaic effect enhancement via nanolayering

Spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric materials leads to their use as photovoltaic devices. Here, the authors show by first-principles calculations how nanolayering of PbTiO3with nickel ions and oxygen vacancies can result in enhanced photocurrents due to smaller bandgaps and photocurrent alignm...

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Main Authors: Fenggong Wang, Steve M. Young, Fan Zheng, Ilya Grinberg, Andrew M. Rappe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10419