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Applications of ferroelectrics in photovoltaic devices

铁电光伏的应用

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Ferroelectric materials exhibiting anomalous photovoltaic properties are one of the foci of photovoltaic research. We review the foundations and recent progress in ferroelectric materials for photovoltaic applications, including the physics of ferroelectricity, nature of ferroelectric thin films, characteristics and underlying mechanism of the ferroelectric photovoltaic effect, solar cells based on ferroelectric materials, and other related topics. These findings have important implications for improving the efficiency of photovoltaic cells.

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具有反常光伏效应的铁电材料是光伏研究的重点之一. 本文综述了铁电材料在光伏应用中的研究进展, 包括铁电性的物理基础、铁电薄膜的性质、铁电光伏效应的特点和内在机制、铁电材料太阳电池等. 这些发现对于进一步提高光伏电池的效率具有重要意义.

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    Yang Liu  (刘洋), Shufeng Wang  (王树峰), Zhijian Chen  (陈志坚) & Lixin Xiao  (肖立新)

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    Zhijian Chen  (陈志坚) & Lixin Xiao  (肖立新)

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Yang Liu is a PhD candidate at the Department of Physics, Peking University, China. He joined Prof. Shufeng Wang’s Ultrafast Spectroscopy group in 2014. Now his main project is on the photophysics of perovskite photovoltaic materials.

Shufeng Wang got his PhD degree in 2001, from the Department of Physics, Peking University, China, under the guidance of Prof. Qihuang Gong. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dana D. Dlott at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) between 2001 and 2004. Now he is an associate professor at the Department of Physics, Peking University. His research interests are on nonlinear optics and ultrafast dynamics of photovoltaic materials and devices.

Lixin Xiao is a professor of the Department of Physics, Peking University (China) since 2011. He received his PhD in applied chemistry fromthe University of Tokyo (Japan) in 2000. He has been working on organic optoelectronicsmaterials and devices, especially on photovoltaic (PV) and organic light-emitting devices (OLED).

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Liu, Y., Wang, S., Chen, Z. et al. Applications of ferroelectrics in photovoltaic devices. Sci. China Mater. 59, 851–866 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-016-5102-0

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