Engineering the defects and microstructures in ferroelectrics for enhanced/novel properties: an emerging way to cope with energy crisis and environmental pollution

W Dong, H **ao, Y Jia, L Chen, H Geng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the past century, ferroelectrics are well known in electroceramics and microelectronics for
their unique ferroelectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and photovoltaic effects. Nowadays, the …

Rational design of type-II nano-heterojunctions for nanoscale optoelectronics

Z Zheng, X Zu, Y Zhang, W Zhou - Materials Today Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, great advances have been made in the development of nanoscale
optoelectronics, such as solar cells, photodetectors, and light-emitting diodes. The design of …

Bulk photovoltaic effect in 2D materials for solar‐power harvesting

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, Z Haider, MW Iqbal… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is highly desirable for exploring and discovering new materials and outcome‐based
approaches to exceed the Shockley–Queisser limit for single‐junction photovoltaic cells …

Emerging inorganic solar cell efficiency tables (version 2)

A Zakutayev, JD Major, X Hao, A Walsh… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the second version of the efficiency tables of materials considered as
emerging inorganic absorbers for photovoltaic solar cell technologies. The materials …

Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in Two-Dimensional Distorted MoTe2

S Aftab, MA Shehzad, HM Salman Ajmal, F Kabir… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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 …

Recent progress in solar cells based on carbon nanomaterials

MA Deshmukh, SJ Park, BS Hedau, TJ Ha - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The enormous demand for energy and the simultaneous exhaustion of fossil fuels have led
to thorough research on energy-related technologies. In this regard, the high-efficiency of …

Recent advances in two-dimensional photovoltaic devices

H Wang, X Song, Z Li, D Li, X Xu, Y Chen… - Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted tremendous interest in view of the
outstanding optoelectronic properties, showing new possibilities for future photovoltaic …

Recycling hazardous and energy-demanding piezoelectric ceramics using an oxide–halide perovskite upside-down composite method

SS Anandakrishnan, M Tabeshfar, M Nelo… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Piezoelectric ceramics are widely employed in electromechanical coupling components
such as sensors, actuators, and transducers owing to their excellent performance, cost …

Emerging ferroelectricity and piezoelectric energy harvesting properties in lead-free zinc titanate nanocrystals

S Barman, S Paul, P Ranjan, S Das, A Datta - Journal of Materials Science, 2023 - Springer
Lead-free ZnTiO3 hexagonal nanocrystals prepared by a facile hydrothermal-based
synthesis process exhibit stable ferroelectricity and a high-temperature dielectric anomaly …

Strain‐Enhanced Photovoltaic Effect in MoTe2

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, MW Iqbal… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent development of two‐dimensional (2D) materials has demonstrated that by using
the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) for crystals lacking inversion symmetry, it is possible to …