Acousto-drag photovoltaic effect by piezoelectric integration of two-dimensional semiconductors

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Main Authors: Gu, Jiaming, Mou, Yicheng, Ma, Jianwen, Chen, Haonan, Zhang, Chuanxin, Wang, Yuxiang, Wang, Jiayu, Guo, Hangwen, Shi, Wu, Yuan, Xiang, Jiang, Xue, Ta, Dean, Shen, Jian, Zhang, Cheng
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author Gu, Jiaming
Mou, Yicheng
Ma, Jianwen
Chen, Haonan
Zhang, Chuanxin
Wang, Yuxiang
Wang, Jiayu
Guo, Hangwen
Shi, Wu
Yuan, Xiang
Jiang, Xue
Ta, Dean
Shen, Jian
Zhang, Cheng
author_facet Gu, Jiaming
Mou, Yicheng
Ma, Jianwen
Chen, Haonan
Zhang, Chuanxin
Wang, Yuxiang
Wang, Jiayu
Guo, Hangwen
Shi, Wu
Yuan, Xiang
Jiang, Xue
Ta, Dean
Shen, Jian
Zhang, Cheng
contents Light-to-electricity conversion is crucial for energy harvesting and photodetection, requesting efficient electron-hole pair separation to prevent recombination. Traditional junction-based mechanisms using built-in electric fields fail in non-barrier regions. Homogeneous material harvesting under photovoltaic effect is appealing but only realized in non-centrosymmetric systems via bulk photovoltaic effect. Here we report the realization of photovoltaic effect by employing surface acoustic waves (SAW) to generate zero-bias photocurrent in a conventional layered semiconductor MoSe2. SAW induces periodic modulation to electronic bands and drags the photoexcited pairs toward the travelling direction. The photocurrent is extracted by a local barrier. The separation of generation and extraction processes suppresses recombination and yields large nonlocal photoresponse. We distinguish acousto-electric drag and electron-hole pair separation effect by fabricating devices of different configurations. The acousto-drag photovoltaic effect, enabled by piezoelectric integration, offers an efficient light-to-electricity conversion method, independent of semiconductor crystal symmetry.
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spellingShingle Acousto-drag photovoltaic effect by piezoelectric integration of two-dimensional semiconductors
Gu, Jiaming
Mou, Yicheng
Ma, Jianwen
Chen, Haonan
Zhang, Chuanxin
Wang, Yuxiang
Wang, Jiayu
Guo, Hangwen
Shi, Wu
Yuan, Xiang
Jiang, Xue
Ta, Dean
Shen, Jian
Zhang, Cheng
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Light-to-electricity conversion is crucial for energy harvesting and photodetection, requesting efficient electron-hole pair separation to prevent recombination. Traditional junction-based mechanisms using built-in electric fields fail in non-barrier regions. Homogeneous material harvesting under photovoltaic effect is appealing but only realized in non-centrosymmetric systems via bulk photovoltaic effect. Here we report the realization of photovoltaic effect by employing surface acoustic waves (SAW) to generate zero-bias photocurrent in a conventional layered semiconductor MoSe2. SAW induces periodic modulation to electronic bands and drags the photoexcited pairs toward the travelling direction. The photocurrent is extracted by a local barrier. The separation of generation and extraction processes suppresses recombination and yields large nonlocal photoresponse. We distinguish acousto-electric drag and electron-hole pair separation effect by fabricating devices of different configurations. The acousto-drag photovoltaic effect, enabled by piezoelectric integration, offers an efficient light-to-electricity conversion method, independent of semiconductor crystal symmetry.
title Acousto-drag photovoltaic effect by piezoelectric integration of two-dimensional semiconductors
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15939