Polarity-dependent nonlinear optics of nanowires under electric field

Regev Ben-Zvi, Omri Bar-Elli, Dan Oron () and Ernesto Joselevich ()
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Regev Ben-Zvi: Weizmann Institute of Science
Omri Bar-Elli: Weizmann Institute of Science
Dan Oron: Weizmann Institute of Science
Ernesto Joselevich: Weizmann Institute of Science

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Polar materials display a series of interesting and widely exploited properties owing to the inherent coupling between their fixed electric dipole and any action that involves a change in their charge distribution. Among these properties are piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, and the bulk photovoltaic effect. Here we report the observation of a related property in this series, where an external electric field applied parallel or anti-parallel to the polar axis of a crystal leads to an increase or decrease in its second-order nonlinear optical response, respectively. This property of electric-field-modulated second-harmonic generation (EFM-SHG) is observed here in nanowires of the polar crystal ZnO, and is exploited as an analytical tool to directly determine by optical means the absolute direction of their polarity, which in turn provides important information about their epitaxy and growth mechanism. EFM-SHG may be observed in any type of polar nanostructures and used to map the absolute polarity of materials at the nanoscale.

Date: 2021
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