Arising applications of ferroelectric materials in photovoltaic devices

Effects of annealing temperature on the microstructure, optical, ferroelectric and photovoltaic properties of BiFeO3 thin films prepared by sol–gel method

(2013) Zebin Lin et al.   CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL

Photocathodic behavior of ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 films decorated with silver nanoparticles

(2013) Chunyan Wang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Improvement of the fatigue and the ferroelectric properties of PZT films through a LSCO seed layer

(2013) Sofia A.S. Rodrigues et al.   Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials

Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells

(2013) Julian Burschka et al.   NATURE

Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition

(2013) Mingzhen Liu et al.   NATURE

Revisiting the δ-phase of poly(vinylidene fluoride) for solution-processed ferroelectric thin films

(2013) Mengyuan Li et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Switching of ferroelectric polarization in epitaxial BaTiO3 films on silicon without a conducting bottom electrode

(2013) Catherine Dubourdieu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Long-Range Balanced Electron- and Hole-Transport Lengths in Organic-Inorganic CH3NH3PbI3

(2013) G. Xing et al.   SCIENCE

Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber

(2013) S. D. Stranks et al.   SCIENCE

Synthesis and Application of Ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) Nanoparticles in Organic Photovoltaic Devices for High Efficiency

(2013) Zhengguo Xiao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Charge Formation, Recombination, and Sweep-Out Dynamics in Organic Solar Cells

(2012) Sarah R. Cowan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Tuning the Energy Level Offset between Donor and Acceptor with Ferroelectric Dipole Layers for Increased Efficiency in Bilayer Organic Photovoltaic Cells

(2012) Bin Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tunable photovoltaic effects in transparent Pb(Zr0.53,Ti0.47)O3 capacitors

(2012) Bin Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Enhanced charge separation in organic photovoltaic films doped with ferroelectric dipoles

(2012) Kanwar S. Nalwa et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Understanding the effect of ferroelectric polarization on power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic devices

(2012) Yongbo Yuan et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

An Optimal Driving Force for Converting Excitons into Free Carriers in Excitonic Solar Cells

(2012) David C. Coffey et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Polarization-tuned diode behaviour in multiferroic BiFeO3thin films

(2012) Yingbang Yao et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Integration of first-principles methods and crystallographic database searches for new ferroelectrics: Strategies and explorations

(2012) Joseph W. Bennett et al.   JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY

Heterostructured Ceramic Powders for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production: Nanostructured TiO2 Shells Surrounding Microcrystalline (Ba,Sr)TiO3 Cores

(2012) Li Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

Enhanced photocurrent in Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 ferroelectric film by artificially introducing asymmetrical interface Schottky barriers

(2012) Peng Zhang et al.   MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Enhanced photovoltaic properties in polycrystalline BiFeO3 thin films with rhombohedral perovskite structure deposited on fluorine doped tin oxide substrates

(2012) Wen Dong et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Photovoltaic properties of BiFeO3 thin film capacitors by using Al-doped zinc oxide as top electrode

(2012) Wen Dong et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Local Mapping of Generation and Recombination Lifetime in BiFeO3 Single Crystals by Scanning Probe Photoinduced Transient Spectroscopy

(2012) Marin Alexe   NANO LETTERS

High-Efficiency Ferroelectric-Film Solar Cells with an n-type Cu2O Cathode Buffer Layer

(2012) Dawei Cao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Effect of metal doping on highly efficient photovoltaics and switchable photovoltage in bismuth ferrite nanotubes

(2012) Gobinda Gopal Khan et al.   Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters

First Principles Calculation of the Shift Current Photovoltaic Effect in Ferroelectrics

(2012) Steve M. Young et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites

(2012) M. M. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Wide bandgap tunability in complex transition metal oxides by site-specific substitution

(2012) Woo Seok Choi et al.   Nature Communications

Visible light photochemical activity of heterostructured PbTiO3–TiO2 core–shell particles

(2012) Li Li et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

Fluorine substituted thiophene–quinoxalinecopolymer to reduce the HOMO level and increase the dielectric constant for high open-circuit voltage organic solar cells

(2012) Yunzhang Lu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Mechanism of the Switchable Photovoltaic Effect in Ferroelectric BiFeO3

(2011) H. T. Yi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Large Open-Circuit Voltage: Electron Transfer with Small Donor-Acceptor Energy Offset

(2011) Xiong Gong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-induced charge-transport in undoped LiNbO3 crystals

(2011) F. Lüdtke et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Photovoltaic effect in a wide-area semiconductor-ferroelectric device

(2011) R. K. Katiyar et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Enhanced photovoltaic properties in graphene/polycrystalline BiFeO3/Pt heterojunction structure

(2011) Yongyuan Zang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Origin of the efficiency enhancement in ferroelectric functionalized organic solar cells

(2011) Kamal Asadi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Stability of polarization in organic ferroelectric metal-insulator-semiconductor structures

(2011) R. Kalbitz et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Photovoltaic properties of Bi2FeCrO6 epitaxial thin films

(2011) R. Nechache et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Resistance switching and white-light photovoltaic effects in BiFeO3/Nb–SrTiO3 heterojunctions

(2011) T. L. Qu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Effect of External Bias on Nongeminate Recombination in Polythiophene/Methanofullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2011) Ralf Mauer et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Photogeneration and Recombination in P3HT/PCBM Solar Cells Probed by Time-Delayed Collection Field Experiments

(2011) Juliane Kniepert et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Giant Piezoelectric Size Effects in Zinc Oxide and Gallium Nitride Nanowires. A First Principles Investigation

(2011) Ravi Agrawal et al.   NANO LETTERS

Effect of top electrodes on photovoltaic properties of polycrystalline BiFeO3based thin film capacitors

(2011) Bin Chen et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Tailoring organic heterojunction interfaces in bilayer polymer photovoltaic devices

(2011) Akira Tada et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Efficiency enhancement in organic solar cells with ferroelectric polymers

(2011) Yongbo Yuan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Electrical contacts to one- and two-dimensional nanomaterials

(2011) François Léonard et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Thermodynamic efficiency limit of excitonic solar cells

(2011) Noel C. Giebink et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Evidence of bulk photovoltaic effect and large tensor coefficient in ferroelectric BiFeO3thin films

(2011) Wei Ji et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Efficient Photovoltaic Current Generation at Ferroelectric Domain Walls

(2011) Jan Seidel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Tip-enhanced photovoltaic effects in bismuth ferrite

(2011) Marin Alexe et al.   Nature Communications

Differential Resistance Analysis of Charge Carrier Losses in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Observing the Transition from Bimolecular to Trap-Assisted Recombination and Quantifying the Order of Recombination

(2011) Wei Lin Leong et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Direct Measurement of Electric Field-Assisted Charge Separation in Polymer:Fullerene Photovoltaic Diodes

(2010) R. Alex Marsh et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Charge Carrier Lifetime and Recombination in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2010) Almantas Pivrikas et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Control of thin ferroelectric polymer films for non-volatile memory applications

(2010) Youn Park et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DIELECTRICS AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION

Dependence of Charge Separation Efficiency on Film Microstructure in Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl):[6,6]-Phenyl-C61 Butyric Acid Methyl Ester Blend Films

(2010) Panagiotis E. Keivanidis et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Effect of Morphology on Ultrafast Free Carrier Generation in Polythiophene:Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Ian A. Howard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Charge Generation and Recombination Dynamics in Poly(3-hexylthiophene)/Fullerene Blend Films with Different Regioregularities and Morphologies

(2010) Jiamo Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct-Write Piezoelectric Polymeric Nanogenerator with High Energy Conversion Efficiency

(2010) Chieh Chang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices

(2010) S. Y. Yang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Structural and optical properties of low temperature synthesized Nanostructured BiFeO3 thin films

(2010) H.B. Sharma et al.   PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER

Recombination in polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2010) Sarah R. Cowan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

The Energy of Charge-Transfer States in Electron Donor-Acceptor Blends: Insight into the Energy Losses in Organic Solar Cells

(2009) Dirk Veldman et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Bulk Photovoltaic Effect at Visible Wavelength in Epitaxial Ferroelectric BiFeO3Thin Films

(2009) Wei Ji et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photovoltaic effects in BiFeO3

(2009) S. Y. Yang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Polarization fatigue in ferroelectric thin films and related materials

(2009) X. J. Lou   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Photochemistry on a polarisable semi-conductor: what do we understand today?

(2009) Divya Tiwari et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Electroluminescence from Charge Transfer States in Polymer Solar Cells

(2009) Kristofer Tvingstedt et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells

(2009) Akihiro Kojima et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On the origin of the open-circuit voltage of polymer–fullerene solar cells

(2009) Koen Vandewal et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Switchable Ferroelectric Diode and Photovoltaic Effect in BiFeO3

(2009) T. Choi et al.   SCIENCE

Separation of the Schottky barrier and polarization effects on the photocurrent of Pt sandwiched Pb(Zr0.20Ti0.80)O3 films

(2008) Fengang Zheng et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Photoconductivity in BiFeO3 thin films

(2008) S. R. Basu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

High efficient photovoltaics in nanoscaled ferroelectric thin films

(2008) Meng Qin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

An Ultraviolet (UV) Detector Using a Ferroelectric Thin Film With In-Plane Polarization

(2008) Bee Keen Gan et al.   IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS

Effect of Ferroelectric/Metal Interface Structure on Polarization Reversal

(2008) Satoshi Horie et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Compositional and Electric Field Dependence of the Dissociation of Charge Transfer Excitons in Alternating Polyfluorene Copolymer/Fullerene Blends

(2008) Dirk Veldman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of CuInS2, CuInSe2, and Cu(InxGa1-x)Se2(CIGS) Nanocrystal “Inks” for Printable Photovoltaics

(2008) Matthew G. Panthani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Impact of Nanocontact on Nanowire Based Nanoelectronics

(2008) Yen-Fu Lin et al.   NANO LETTERS

Regular arrays of highly ordered ferroelectric polymer nanostructures for non-volatile low-voltage memories

(2008) Zhijun Hu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Organic ferroelectrics

(2008) Sachio Horiuchi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bimolecular recombination losses in polythiophene: Fullerene solar cells

(2008) C. G. Shuttle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Coulomb Barrier for Charge Separation at an Organic Semiconductor Interface

(2008) Matthias Muntwiler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS