IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v10y2019i1d10.1038_s41467-019-11832-3.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Switchable magnetic bulk photovoltaic effect in the two-dimensional magnet CrI3

Author

Listed:
  • Yang Zhang

    (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
    Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Tobias Holder

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

  • Hiroaki Ishizuka

    (University of Tokyo)

  • Fernando Juan

    (Donostia International Physics Center
    Basque Foundation for Science)

  • Naoto Nagaosa

    (RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
    University of Tokyo)

  • Claudia Felser

    (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)

  • Binghai Yan

    (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Abstract

The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) rectifies light into the dc current in a single-phase material and attracts the interest to design high-efficiency solar cells beyond the pn junction paradigm. Because it is a hot electron effect, the BPVE surpasses the thermodynamic Shockley–Queisser limit to generate above-band-gap photovoltage. While the guiding principle for BPVE materials is to break the crystal centrosymmetry, here we propose a magnetic photogalvanic effect (MPGE) that introduces the magnetism as a key ingredient and induces a giant BPVE. The MPGE emerges from the magnetism-induced asymmetry of the carrier velocity in the band structure. We demonstrate the MPGE in a layered magnetic insulator CrI3, with much larger photoconductivity than any previously reported results. The photocurrent can be reversed and switched by controllable magnetic transitions. Our work paves a pathway to search for magnetic photovoltaic materials and to design switchable devices combining magnetic, electronic, and optical functionalities.

Suggested Citation

  • Yang Zhang & Tobias Holder & Hiroaki Ishizuka & Fernando Juan & Naoto Nagaosa & Claudia Felser & Binghai Yan, 2019. "Switchable magnetic bulk photovoltaic effect in the two-dimensional magnet CrI3," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 10(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-11832-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11832-3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11832-3
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41467-019-11832-3?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Longjun Xiang & Hao Jin & Jian Wang, 2024. "Quantifying the photocurrent fluctuation in quantum materials by shot noise," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-8, December.
    2. Zihan Liang & Xin Zhou & Le Zhang & Xiang-Long Yu & Yan Lv & Xuefen Song & Yongheng Zhou & Han Wang & Shuo Wang & Taihong Wang & Perry Ping Shum & Qian He & Yanjun Liu & Chao Zhu & Lin Wang & Xiaolong, 2023. "Strong bulk photovoltaic effect in engineered edge-embedded van der Waals structures," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-9, December.
    3. Masakazu Matsubara & Takatsugu Kobayashi & Hikaru Watanabe & Youichi Yanase & Satoshi Iwata & Takeshi Kato, 2022. "Polarization-controlled tunable directional spin-driven photocurrents in a magnetic metamaterial with threefold rotational symmetry," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.
    4. Daniel Kaplan & Tobias Holder & Binghai Yan, 2023. "General nonlinear Hall current in magnetic insulators beyond the quantum anomalous Hall effect," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-7, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-11832-3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.