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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) -- 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) 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) 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

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 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

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

The bulk photovoltaic (BPV) effect that converts light into electric current is highly sensitive to the system symmetry and its electronic Bloch wavefunction. To create a sizable net electric current, it is necessary to break the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Chunmei Zhang , Jian Zhou

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

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), a manifestation of broken centrosymmetry, has attracted interest as a probe of the symmetry and quantum geometry of materials, and for use in novel optoelectronic devices. Despite its bulk nature, 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

A bulk material without inversion symmetry can generate a direct current under illumination. This interface-free current generation mechanism, referred to as the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), does not rely on $p$-$n$ junctions. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-01 Zhuang Qian , Jian Zhou , Hua Wang , Shi Liu

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

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

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

We employ first-principles calculations to investigate the ferroelectric properties and the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) of antimony sulfur iodide (SbSI). The BPVE enables direct sunlight-to-electricity conversion in homogeneous…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-13 Giuseppe Cuono , Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay , Andrea Droghetti , Silvia Picozzi

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…

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