Flexo-photovoltaic effect
| Autor: | Dong Jik Kim, Marin Alexe, Ming-Min Yang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Materials science
Silicon chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology Anomalous photovoltaic effect Photovoltaic effect 7. Clean energy 01 natural sciences law.invention chemistry.chemical_compound law 0103 physical sciences Solar cell 010306 general physics QC Multidisciplinary business.industry Photovoltaic system 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Piezoelectricity Semiconductor chemistry Strontium titanate Optoelectronics 0210 nano-technology business |
| Zdroj: | Science. 360:904-907 |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 0036-8075 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.aan3256 |
| Popis: | Poking a semiconductor Noncentrosymmetric crystal structure can lead to a peculiar kind of charge separation under illumination called the bulk photovoltaic (BPV) effect. Solar cells made of such materials, however, typically have low efficiency. Yang et al. expanded the class of materials capable of exhibiting the BPV effect by making ordinarily centrosymmetric materials, such as SrTiO 3 and TiO 2 , lose their inversion symmetry. The authors accomplished this by applying a point force on the surface of the material. This induced a strain gradient and the loss of inversion symmetry, resulting in large photovoltaic currents under illumination. The mechanism, dubbed the flexo-photovoltaic effect, is expected to apply to most semiconductors. Science , this issue p. 904 |
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