Silicon and tungsten oxide nanostructures for water splitting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7408, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gil, Karla R Reyes ^a   Spurgeon, Joshua M ^a   Lewis, Nathan S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogen production; Membrane; Semiconductor; Silicon; Solar cell; Tungsten oxide; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

ANODIZATIONS; CARPET FIBERS; CELL DESIGN; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; HIGH SURFACE AREA; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MATRIX; MICRO-SCALES; OXIDATION REACTIONS; PARALLEL ARRAYS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; POROUS TUNGSTEN; SELF-ORGANIZED; SEMICONDUCTOR; SI WIRE ARRAY; SINGLE CRYSTAL WAFERS; SPONGELIKE STRUCTURE; TUNGSTEN FOILS; TUNGSTEN OXIDE; WATER OXIDATION; WATER REDUCTION; WATER SPLITTING;

CATALYSTS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION; OXIDES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 77958123190     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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