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The correlation between the shift current mechanism for the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) and the structural and electronic properties of ferroelectric perovskite oxides is not well understood. Here, we study and engineer the shift…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Fenggong Wang , Steve M. Young , Fan Zheng , Ilya Grinberg , Andrew M. Rappe

Two-dimensional ferroelectrics have recently emerged as a promising avenue for next-generation optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. Due to the intrinsic absence of inversion symmetry, 2D ferroelectrics exhibit bulk photovoltaic effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 Francesco Delodovici , Brahim Dkhil , Charles Paillard

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) -- generation of electric currents by light in noncentrosymmetric materials in the absence of electric fields and gradients -- has been intensively investigated in the end of the last century. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-28 Boris Sturman

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) refers to the phenomenon of generating photocurrent or photovoltage in homogeneous noncentrosymmetric materials under illumination, and the intrinsic contribution to the BPVE is known as the shift current…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-01 Gan Jin , Lixin He

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) generates a direct current photocurrent under uniform irradiation and is a nonlinear optical effect traditionally studied in non-centrosymmetric materials. The two main origins of BPVE are the shift and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Ying-Ming Xie , Naoto Nagaosa

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) is a second-order optical process in noncentrosymmetric materials that converts the light into DC currents. BPVE is classified into shift current and injection current according to the generation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-21 Hanqi Pi , Shuai Zhang , Hongming Weng

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) converts light into a coherent dc current at zero bias, through what is commonly known as the shift current. This current has previously been attributed to the displacement of the electronic wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

Spontaneous polarization and bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) are two concomitant physical properties in ferroelectric materials. The flipping of ferroelectric order usually accompanies with the switching of BPVE as both of them are reversed…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-04 Rui-Chun Xiao , Yang Gao , Hua Jiang , Wei Gan , Changjin Zhang , Hui Li

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 studied shift current, the ballistic current, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-05 Zhenbang Dai , Aaron M. Schankler , Lingyuan Gao , Liang Z. Tan , Andrew M. Rappe

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) occurs in solids with broken inversion symmetry and refers to DC current generation due to uniform illumination, without the need of heterostructures or interfaces, a feature that is distinct from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-02 Zhenbang Dai , Andrew M. Rappe

Photodetection is an indispensable function of optoelectronic devices in modern communication and sensing systems. Contrary to the near-infrared/visible regions, the fast and sensitive photodetectors operated at room temperature for the…

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) is a phenomenon which creates a net electrical current from sunlight in a polar noncentrosymmetric material possessing a moderate band gap. This effect is being explored as an alternative to traditional…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-14 John A. Brehm

The two-dimensional (2D) bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) is a cornerstone for future highly efficient 2D solar cells and optoelectronics. The ferromagnetic semiconductor 2H-FeCl2 is shown to realize a new type of BPVE in which spatial…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-16 Liang Liu , Xiaolin Li , Luping Du , Xi Zhang

Shift current and ballistic current have been proposed to explain the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), and there have been experiments designed to separate the two mechanisms. These experiments are based on the assumption that under…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-24 Zhenbang Dai , Andrew M. Rappe

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) refers to the direct current generation in a noncentrosymmetric material under illumination and can be applied to solar energy technology. BPVE includes injection and shift currents, led by the change of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Bo-Xin Lin , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu

The bulk photovoltaic effect in noncentrosymmetric materials is an intriguing physical phenomenon that holds potential for high-efficiency energy harvesting. Here, we study the shift current bulk photovoltaic effect in the transition metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-28 Aaron M. Schankler , Lingyuan Gao , Andrew M. Rappe

Ferroelectric anomalous photovoltaic (APV) effect, as a fascinating physical conceptual phenomenon, holds significant potentials for new optoelectronic device applications. However, due to the knowledge lacking on the origin and underlying…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-04 Linjie Wei , Fu Li , Yi Liu , Hongbin Zhang , Junhua Luo , Zhihua Sun

Shift current---a photocurrent induced by light irradiating noncentrosymmetric materials in the absence of any bias voltage or built-in electric field---is one of the mechanisms of the so-called bulk photovoltaic effect. It has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 U. Bajpai , B. S. Popescu , P. Plechac , B. K. Nikolic , L. E. F. Foa Torres , H. Ishizuka , N. Nagaosa

Bulk photovoltaic (BPVE) effect in crystals lacking inversion symmetry offers great potential for optoelectronic applications due to its unique properties such as above bandgap photovoltage and switchable photocurrent. Because of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-27 Amr Abdelsamie , Lu You , Le Wang , Shuzhou Li , Mingqiang Gu , Junling Wang

We calculate the bulk photovoltaic response of the ferroelectrics BaTiO$_3$ and PbTiO$_3$ from first principles by applying "shift current" theory to the electronic structure from density functional theory. The first principles results for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Steve M. Young , Andrew M. Rappe
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