Journal
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 4148-4153Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.10.131
Keywords
Inorganic perovskite; Ferroelectric thin film; Depolarized electric field; Film thickness; Fcrroclectric photovoltaic devices
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [51572073, 51602093, 11774082, 51872079]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2016AAA031, 2018CF31700, 2019CFA055]
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing (Wuhan University of Technology) [2018-KF-16]
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The ferroelectric photovoltaic (FPV) effect obtained in inorganic perovskite ferroelectric materials has received much attention because of its large potential in preparing FPV devices with superior stability, high open-circuit voltage (V-OC) and large short-circuit current density (J(SC)). In order to obtain suitable thickness for the ferroelectric thin film as light absorption layer, in which, the sunlight can be fully absorbed and the photo-generated electrons and holes are recombined as few as possible, we prepare Pb0.93La0.07(Zr0.6Ti0.4)(0.9825)O-3 (PLZT) ferroelectric thin films with different layer numbers by the sol-gel method and based on these thin films, obtain FPV devices with FTO/PLZT/Au structure. By measuring photovoltaic properties, it is found that the device with 4 layer-PLZT thin film (similar to 300 nm thickness) exhibits the largest V-OC and J(SC) and the photovoltaic effect obviously depends on the value and direction of the poling electric field. When the device is applied a negative poling electric field, both the V-OC and J(SC) are significantly higher than those of the device applied the positive poling electric field, due to the depolarization field resulting from the remnant polarization in the same direction with the built-in electric field induced by the Schottky barrier, and the higher the negative poling electric field, the larger the V-OC and J(SC) At a -333 kV/cm poling electric field, the FPV device exhibits the most superior photovoltaic properties with a V-OC of as high as 0.73 V and J(SC) of as large as 2.11 mu A/cm(2). This work opens a new way for developing ferroelectric photovoltaic devices with good properties.
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