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Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently attracted attention due to their superlative optical and electronic properties. In particular, their extraordinary optical absorption and semiconducting band gap have…

The conversion efficiency of ultra-thin solar cells based on layered materials has been limited by their open-circuit voltage, which is typically pinned to a value under 0.6 V. Here we report an open-circuit voltage of 1.02 V in a 120…

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

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with puckered layer morphology are promising candidates for next-generation opto-electronics devices owing to their anisotropic response to external perturbations and wide band gap tunability with the number…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-14 M. Cattelan , C. J. Sayers , D. Wolverson , E. Carpene

We study theoretically transverse photoconductivity induced by circularly polarized radiation, i.e. the photovoltaic Hall effect, and linearly polarized radiation causing intraband optical transitions in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 M. V. Durnev

A systematic survey and subsequent research have been made on MoTe2-based n-CdS/p-MoTe2/p+-CGS device in solar cell and photodetector field. The optimization has been established by altering the various properties of each constituent layer…

Pyroelectric and photovoltaic effects are vital in cutting-edge thermal imaging, infrared sensors, thermal and solar energy harvesting. Recent advances revealed the great potential of the bulk photovoltaic effect in two-dimensional (2D)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 Michael Uzhansky , Abhishek Rakshit , Yoav Kalcheim , Elad Koren

In integrated photonics, specific wavelengths are preferred such as 1550 nm due to low-loss transmission and the availability of optical gain in this spectral region. For chip-based photodetectors, layered two-dimensional (2D) materials…

Although van der Waals layered transition metal dichalcogenides from transient absorption spectroscopy have successfully demonstrated an ideal carrier multiplication (CM) performance with an onset of nearly 2Eg,interpretation of the CM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Jun Suk Kim , Minh Dao Tran , Sung-Tae Kim , Daehan Yoo , Sang-Hyun Oh , Ji-Hee Kim , Young Hee Lee

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), like MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, and WSe$_2$, feature direct bandgaps, strong spin-orbit coupling, and exciton-polariton interactions at the atomic scale, which could be harnessed for…

Directional photocurrents in two-dimensional materials arise from broken crystal symmetry, offering pathways to high-speed, bias-free photodetection beyond conventional devices. Tungsten ditelluride (WTe$_2$), a type-II Weyl semimetal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Subhashri Chatterjee , Katsumasa Yoshioka , Taro Wakamura , Vasili Perebeinos , Norio Kumada

A fundamental understanding of the intrinsic optoelectronic properties of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is crucial for its integration into high performance semiconductor devices. Here, we investigate the transport…

Converting light into steady currents and spin-currents in two-dimensional (2D) platform is essential for future energy harvesting and spintronics. We show that the giant and modulable bulk photovoltaic effects (BPVEs) can be achieved in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-10 Liang Liu , Weikang Liu , Bin Cheng , Bin Cui , Jifan Hu

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

Semiconducting 2D materials, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and other members of the transition metal dichalcogenide family, have emerged as promising materials for applications in high performance nanoelectronics that exhibit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 David Maeso , Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Nicolas Agraït , Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

The search for highly effective and environmentally safe photocatalysts for water splitting and photovoltaic solar cells is essential for renewable solar energy conversion and storage. Based on first principles calculations, we show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-23 Mukesh Jakhar , Ashok Kumar

The bulk photovoltaic effect is a photocurrent generation from alternating electric field, which is a promising candidate for future efficient solar cell technology. It is the second-order optical current, which is the injection current or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Motohiko Ezawa

We calculate the shift current response, which has been identified as the dominant mechanism for the bulk photovoltaic effect, for the polar compounds LiAsS$_\text{2}$, LiAsSe$_\text{2}$, and NaAsSe$_\text{2}$. We find that the magnitudes…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-04 John A. Brehm , Steve M. Young , Fan Zheng , Andrew M. Rappe

Rhombohedrally stacked MoS2 has been shown to exhibit spontaneous polarization down to the bilayer limit and can sustain a strong depolarization field when sandwiched between graphene. Such a field gives rise to a spontaneous photovoltaic…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) phototransistors have been object of intensive research during the last years due to their potential for photodetection. Photoresponse in these devices is typically caused by a…