Concept of Quantum Geometry in Optoelectronic Processes in Solids: Application to Solar Cells.
The concept of topology is becoming more and more relevant to the properties and functions of electronic materials including various transport phenomena and optical responses. A pedagogical introduction is given here to the basic ideas and their applications to optoelectronic processes in solids.
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.|Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
Naoto
N
Nagaosa
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Takahiro
T
Morimoto
berry phase; nonlinear optical processes; shift current; solar cells