Engineering and Technology

Disorder-induced bulk photovoltaic effect in a centrosymmetric van der Waals material

C. Cheon, Z. Sun, et al.

Discover how breaking inversion symmetry through structural disorder unravels the bulk photovoltaic effect in ultrathin PtSe₂, a centrosymmetric semiconducting material. This groundbreaking research by Cheol-Yeon Cheon, Zhe Sun, Jiang Cao, Juan Francisco Gonzalez Marin, Mukesh Tripathi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mathieu Luisier, and Andras Kis reveals the potential of defect engineering in boosting photovoltaic functionality.