Abstract
Using first-principles methods, we investigate the electronic properties of the [Ba(Mo 1 / 2,Mg 1 / 2)O 3] x-[BaTiO 3] 1 - x solid solution derived from barium titanate as a potential candidate to be used in photovoltaic devices. Focusing on the bandgap and its origin, we study the effect of different possible Mo and Mg contents, arrangements, and phases of [Ba(Mo 1 / 2,Mg 1 / 2)O 3] x-[BaTiO 3] 1 - x. We find that [Ba(Mo 1 / 2,Mg 1 / 2)O 3] 0.25-[BaTiO 3] 0.75 is a viable candidate for use in transparent photovoltaics due to its energy bandgap of 2.6 eV in the rhombohedral phase. In all cases, [Ba(Mo 1 / 2,Mg 1 / 2)O 3] x-[BaTiO 3] 1 - x materials exhibit spontaneous polarization that allows the exploitation of the bulk photovoltaic effect and in principle may allow high power conversion efficiency exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit for these materials.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 174101 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Physics |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue number | 17 |
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| State | Published - 7 Nov 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:O.S. and I.G. acknowledge the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation for support under the NSF-BSF program (Grant No. 2016637). J.Y. and A.M.R. were supported by the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER46431. Computational support was provided by the Bar Ilan Computer Center, the HPCMO of the U.S. DOD, and the NERSC of the U.S. DOE.
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