Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 43, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201803821
Keywords
ceramics; efficiency boost; multisource energy harvesting; photo-ferroelectric; photovoltaic
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [705437]
- Academy of Finland [267573, 273663, 298409]
- Australian Research Council
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Photo-ferroelectric single crystals and highly oriented thin-films have been extensively researched recently, with increasing photovoltaic energy conversion efficiency (from 0.5% up to 8.1%) achieved. Rare attention has been paid to polycrystalline ceramics, potentially due to their negligible efficiency. However, ceramics offer simple and cost-effective fabrication routes and stable performance compared to single crystals and thin-films. Therefore, a significantly increased efficiency of photo-ferroelectric ceramics contributes toward widened application areas for photo-ferroelectrics, e.g., multisource energy harvesting. Here, all-optical domain control under illumination, visible-range light-tunable photodiode/transistor phenomena and optoelectrically tunable photovoltaic properties are demonstrated, using a recently discovered photo-ferroelectric ceramic (K0.49Na0.49Ba0.02)(Nb0.99Ni0.01)O-2.995. For this monolithic material, tuning of the electric conductivity independent of the ferroelectricity is achieved, which previously could only be achieved in organic phase-separate blends. Guided by these discoveries, a boost of five orders of magnitude in the photovoltaic output power and energy conversion efficiency is achieved via optical and electrical control of ferroelectric domains in an energy-harvesting circuit. These results provide a potentially supplementary approach and knowledge for other photo-ferroelectrics to further boost their efficiency for energy-efficient circuitry designs and enable the development of a wide range of optoelectronic devices.
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