Influence of Feature Size, Film Thickness, and Silicon Doping on the Performance of Nanostructured Hematite Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 772-782

  Cesar, Ilkay ^a,b   Sivula, Kevin ^a   Kay, Andreas ^a   Zboril, Radek ^c   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS; CRYSTALLINITY; DENDRITIC STRUCTURES; DONOR DENSITIES; DOPANT PRECURSORS; ELECTRON TRANSPORTS; FEATURE SIZES; FLUORINE-DOPED TIN OXIDES; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPIES; INCUBATION TIME; NANO-POROUS; NANO-SIZED FEATURES; NANO-STRUCTURED; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-GENERATED CARRIERS; PHOTOANODE; POLY-CRYSTALLINE; RECOMBINATION RATES; SILICON DOPING; SOLAR WATER-SPLITTING; SPACE-CHARGE FIELDS; SYNTHETIC PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DENDRIMERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORINE; HEMATITE; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC FILMS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLYBDENUM; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXIDE FILMS; OXIDE MINERALS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER VAPOR;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 61649119228     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp809060p     Document Type: Article

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