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Recently, an anomalous photovoltaic effect in a BiFeO3 (BFO) thin film has attracted much attention. In this research, Pt/BFO/Pt coplanar capacitors have been prepared using striped- and single-domain structured BFO thin films, and the influence of the polarization direction of incident violet laser light (λ = 405 nm) on the photovoltage of these capacitors has been investigated. In a specific geometry, both coplanar capacitors, the one using a striped-domain and the other using a single-domain structured BFO thin film showed anomalous photovoltages above band gap of BFO, indicating that an anomalous photovoltage should be observed under randomly-polarized light illumination such as that by a halogen lamp.
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Nakashima, S., Uchida, T., Takayama, K. et al. Influence of the polarization direction of light on the anomalous photovoltaic effect in BiFeO3 thin films. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 66, 1389–1393 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.66.1389
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