Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Kinetic photovoltage along semiconductor-water interfaces

  • Jidong Li,
  • Yuyang Long,
  • Zhili Hu,
  • Jiyuan Niu,
  • Tiezhu Xu,
  • Maolin Yu,
  • Baowen Li,
  • Xuemei Li,
  • Jianxin Zhou,
  • Yanpeng Liu,
  • Cheng Wang,
  • Laifa Shen,
  • Wanlin Guo,
  • Jun Yin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25318-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Common photovoltaic effect is across the interface of heterojunctions. Here, the authors find that scanning a light beam can induce a persistent in-plane photoelectric voltage along silicon-water interfaces, due to the following movement of a charge packet in the vicinity of the silicon surface.