Nonlinear Optics | Jian Zhou Research Group

Group meeting

Thu, 01 Jan 2099 14:00:00 +0000

Magnetic precession induced spin accumulation in collinear antiferromagnets

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A brief review paper in Adv Mater

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We publish a review paper in Adv. Mater. on the theory and experimental advances in bulk photovoltaic effect and its application.

The bulk photovoltaic effect belongs on one promising nonlinear optics process that converts light field into a static electric current or voltage. Our group has been devoted into this field for a few years, focusing on its emergence in various quantum materials such as ferroelectrics, topological insulators, (anti-)magnets, and helimagnets. Invited by the Advanced Materials, we wrote a Review article that describe the basic concept, mechanism, experimental evidences, and future challenges on the bulk photovoltaic effect. The work has been online recently, and one may refer to https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202517783 for more details.

Light-Driven Ferroic Switching Enables Reversible Control of Hydrogen Adsorption Thermodynamics

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Recent Advances of Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in Exotic Quantum Materials: Progress and Challenges

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Strain-modulated bulk photovoltaic effect in negative piezoelectrics

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

2D edge-seeded heteroepitaxy of ultrathin high-κ dielectric CaNb2O6 for 2D field-effect transistors

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Achieving High-Yield Conversion of Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides on Diverse Substrates

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Contrasting Light-Induced Spin Torque in Antiferromagnetic and Altermagnetic Systems

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Layer-dependent disorder controlling shift current generation in two-dimensional centrosymmetric systems

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Nonresonant Raman control of ferroelectric polarization

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Nonvolatile Ferroic and Topological Phase Control under Nonresonant Light

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Prediction of high Chern number and bulk photovoltaic current in Janus 1T' transition metal dichalcogenides under circularly polarized light

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pure spin and orbital bulk photovoltaic effect in topological screw dislocations

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reversing Néel Vector in Parity-Time Antiferromagnets by Nonreciprocal Light Scattering

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ultrafast Photocurrent Hysteresis in Photoferroelectric α-In2Se3 Diagnosed by Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Unraveling phase transformation with phononic hyperbolicity using off-resonant terahertz light

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Valley-dependent giant orbital moments and transport features in rhombohedral graphene multilayers

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

20-electron exohedral alkaline-earth-metallofullerenes M(C60)3 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba)

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Assembly-inspired multiferroicity with nontrivial Chern insulating phase from exohedral metallofullerenes

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Band-Edge Mixture Engineered Giant and Switchable Shift Current Generation

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Bulk photovoltaic effects in helimagnets

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Collective octahedral tilting in ultrathin Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite under terahertz light

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Current Induced Spin and Orbital Polarization in Magnetic Sliding Ferroelectrics

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Driving and detecting topological phase transition in noncentrosymmetric systems via an all-optical approach

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In-Sublattice Carrier Transition Enabled Polarimetric Photodetectors with Reconfigurable Polarity Transition

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ionic Photovoltaics-in-Memory in van der Waals Material

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Light-induced pure spin transportation in twisted atomic wires of transition metal trichalcogenides

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Light-Induced Topological Phase Transition with Tunable Layer Hall Effect in Axion Antiferromagnets

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Nonlinear Optics-Driven Spin Reorientation in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Quasi-Solid-State Conversion with Fast Redox Kinetics Enabled by A Sulfonamide-Based Electrolyte in Li-Organic Batteries

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Raman-active interlayer phonons and moiré phonons in twisted thin-layer MoTe2

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A general thermodynamics-triggered competitive growth model to guide the synthesis of two-dimensional nonlayered materials

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Carrier driven magnetic and topological phase transition in two-dimensional III-V semiconductors

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

dz2 Band Links Frontier Orbitals and Charge Carrier Dynamics of Single-Atom Cocatalyst-Aided Photocatalytic H2 Production

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Magnetic proximity enabled bulk photovoltaic effects in van der Waals heterostructures

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Renormalizing Antiferroelectric Nanostripes in β'-In2Se3 via Optomechanics

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Shift current response in elemental two-dimensional ferroelectrics

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Spin glass behavior in amorphous Cr2Ge2Te6 phase-change alloy

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Valley contrasting bulk photovoltaic effect in a PT-symmetric MnPSe3 monolayer

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Vibrational-anharmonicity-assisted phase transitions in perovskite oxides under terahertz irradiation

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A Multiferroic Iron Arsenide Monolayer

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A π-Conjugated Polyimide-Based High-Performance Aqueous Potassium-Ion Asymmetric Supercapacitor

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Anisotropic terahertz optostriction in group-IV monochalcogenide compounds

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Designing inorganic semiconductors with cold-rolling processability

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On-demand quantum spin Hall insulators controlled by two-dimensional ferroelectricity

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Optical generation and electric control of pure spin photocurrent in ferroelectric Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite (MA)2Pb(SCN)2I2 monolayer

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Photo-magnetization in two-dimensional sliding ferroelectrics

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Photoinduced Rippling of Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Nitride Monolayers

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Rational Design of Endohedral Superhalogens without Using Metal Cations and Electron Counting Rules

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Screening transition metal-based polar pentagonal monolayers with large piezoelectricity and shift current

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Switchable topological phase transition and nonlinear optical properties in a ReC2H monolayer

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Synergetic ligand and size effects of boron cage based electrolyte in Li-ion battery

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tailoring Bulk Photovoltaic Effects in Magnetic Sliding Ferroelectric Materials

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tailoring photoinduced nonequilibrium magnetizations in In2Se3 bilayers

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Toward Room-temperature Electrical Control of Magnetic Order in Multiferroic van der Waals Materials

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Boosting oxygen reduction activity and enhancing stability through structural transformation of layered lithium manganese oxide

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Coherence control of directional nonlinear photocurrent in spatially symmetric systems

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Colossal switchable photocurrents in topological Janus transition metal dichalcogenides

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Designing stable closo-B12 dianions in silico for Li- and Mg-ion battery applications

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Layer number dependent ferroelasticity in 2D Ruddlesden-Popper organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Light-induced quantum anomalous Hall effect on the 2D surfaces of 3D topological insulators

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Light-induced static magnetization: nonlinear Edelstein effect

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Pure bulk orbital and spin photocurrent in two-dimensional ferroelectric materials

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Pure spin photocurrent in non-centrosymmetric crystals: bulk spin photovoltaic effect

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Terahertz Driven Reversible Topological Phase Transition of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Terahertz optics-driven phase transition in two-dimensional multiferroics

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Uranium In Situ Electrolytic Deposition with a Reusable Functional Graphene-Foam Electrode

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A Two-Plateaus Li-Se Chemistry for High-Volumetric-Capacity Se Cathodes

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Giant Photonic Response of Mexican-Hat Topological Semiconductors for Mid-Infrared to THz Applications

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Intercalation induced ferromagnetism in group-V transition metal dichalcogenide bilayer

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Noncontacting optostriction driven anisotropic and inhomogeneous strain in two-dimensional materials

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Normal-to-Topological Insulator Martensitic Phase Transition in Group-IV Monochalcogenides Driven by Light

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Sub-Angstrom Characterization of Structural Origin for High In-Plane Anisotropy in 2D GeS2

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Tailoring geometric phases of two-dimensional functional materials under light: a brief review

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Toggling valley-spin locking and nonlinear optical properties of single-element multiferroic monolayers via light

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Tunable charge density wave in a black/blue phosphorene lateral heterostructure: A first-principles calculation

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Hydrogenated C60 as high-capacity stable anode materials for Li-ion batteries

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Lattice dynamic and instability in pentasilicene: A light single-element ferroelectric material with high Curie temperature

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Near-infrared optical properties and proposed phase-change usefulness of transition metal disulfides

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Optomechanical control of stacking patterns of h-BN bilayer

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ultra-high-temperature Ferromagnetism in Intrinsic Tetrahedral Semiconductors

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Atomically dispersed tungsten on metal halide monolayer as a ferromagnetic Chern insulator

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Effect of Coulomb Correlation on the Magnetic Properties of Mn Clusters

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Electrochemically-mediated selective capture of heavy metal chromium and arsenic oxyanions from water

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Opto-mechanics driven fast martensitic transition in two-dimensional materials

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Simultaneous Detection and Removal of Formaldehyde at Room Temperature: Janus Au@ZnO@ZIF-8 Nanoparticles

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Super-alkalis as Building Blocks of One-Dimensional Hierarchical Electride

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Colossal Stability of Gas Phase Tri-anions: Super-pnictogens

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Giant Valley Splitting and Valley Polarized Plasmonics in Group-V Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic transition metal halides

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Rational Design of Stable Dianions by Functionalizing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Role of ligands on the stability of BnXn and CBn-1Xn (n = 5-10; X = H, F, CN) and their potential as building blocks of electrolytes in lithium ion batteries

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Two-dimensional topological crystalline quantum spin Hall effect in transition metal intercalated compounds

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Valley-Polarized Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferrimagnetic Honeycomb Lattices

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A ferromagnetic and half-metallic FeC2 monolayer containing C2 dimers