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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shu, Longlong
• Ke, Shanming
• Fei, Linfeng
• Huang, Wenbin
• Wang, Zhiguo
• Gong, Jinhui
• Jiang, Xiaoning
• Wang, Li
• Li, Fei
• Lei, Shuijin
• Rao, Zhenggang
• Zhou, Yangbo
• Zheng, Ren-Kui
• Yao, Xi
• Wang, Yu
• Stengel, Massimiliano
• Catalan, Gustau

Titel

Photoflexoelectric effect in halide perovskites

Ist Teil von

• Nature materials, 2020-06, Vol.19 (6), p.605-609

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Nature Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Harvesting environmental energy to generate electricity is a key scientific and technological endeavour of our time. Photovoltaic conversion and electromechanical transduction are two common energy-harvesting mechanisms based on, respectively, semiconducting junctions and piezoelectric insulators. However, the different material families on which these transduction phenomena are based complicate their integration into single devices. Here we demonstrate that halide perovskites, a family of highly efficient photovoltaic materials 1 – 3 , display a photoflexoelectric effect whereby, under a combination of illumination and oscillation driven by a piezoelectric actuator, they generate orders of magnitude higher flexoelectricity than in the dark. We also show that photoflexoelectricity is not exclusive to halides but a general property of semiconductors that potentially enables simultaneous electromechanical and photovoltaic transduction and harvesting in unison from multiple energy inputs. Flexoelectricity is the ability of materials to generate electricity upon bending. Here it is demonstrated that adding light to mechanical oscillation enhances effective flexoelectric coefficients by orders of magnitude, with the halide perovskites showing the largest coefficients.