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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

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

Broadband, efficient and fast conversion of light to electricity is crucial for sensing and clean energy. Here we reveal the largest observed bulk photo-voltaic effect (BPVE), an intrinsic mechanism predicted to be ultrafast and exceed the…

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

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPE) leads to the generation of a photocurrent from an asymmetric material. Despite drawing much attention due to its ability to generate photovoltages above the band gap ($E_g$), it is considered a weak effect…

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) leads to directed photo-currents and photo-voltages in bulk materials. Unlike photo-voltages in p-n junction solar cells that are limited by carrier recombination to values below the bandgap energy of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Andreas Pusch , Udo Römer , Dimitrie Culcer , Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes

Recently, atomically thin PdSe$_2$ semiconductors with rare pentagonal Se-Pd-Se monolayers were synthesized and were also found to possess superior properties such as ultrahigh air stability, and high carrier mobility, thus offering a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-21 Vijay Kumar Gudelli , Guang-Yu Guo

Bulk photovoltaic effect, which arises from crystal symmetry-driven charge carrier separation, is an intriguing physical phenomenon that has attracted extensive interest in photovoltaic application due to its junction-free photovoltaic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-22 Xiaojuan Chen , Kang Xu , Tingxiao Qin , Yubin Wang , Yuzhong Chen , Haiyun Liu , Qihua Xiong

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 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

Bulk photovoltaic (BPV) effect, a second order nonlinear process that generates static current under light irradiation, requires centrosymmetric broken systems as its application platform. In order to realize measurable BPV photocurrent in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-05 Xingchi Mu , Qianqian Xue , Yan Sun , Jian Zhou

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) 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

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

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

Germanium diselenide (GeSe$_{2}$) has recently attracted substantial interest as a rare example of one-dimensional (1D) van der Waals material. Here, we investigate the photovoltaic potential of bulk-stacked GeSe$_{2}$ chains using…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Seoung-Hun Kang , Youngjae Kim , Bo Gyu Jang , Sejoong Kim

In future solar cell technologies, the thermodynamic Shockley-Queisser limit for solar-to-current conversion in traditional p-n junctions could potentially be overcome with a bulk photovoltaic effect by creating an inversion broken symmetry…

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…

Recent technical and commercial successes of existing thin film solar cell technologies motivates exploration of next-generation photovoltaic (PV) absorber materials. Of particular scientific interest are compounds like CuSbSe$_2$, which do…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-12 Adam Welch , Lauryn Baranowski , Pawel Zawadzki , Stephan Lany , Colin Wolden , Andriy Zakutayev

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
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