Surface modification of a-SiC photoelectrodes for photocurrent enhancement

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7770, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Matulionis, Ilvydas ^a   Hua, Jian ^a   Zhu, Feng ^a   Gallon, Josh ^a   Gaillard, Nicolas ^b   Deutsch, Todd ^c   Miller, Eric ^b   Madan, Arun ^a  

^a MVSystems Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon carbide; Barrier; Hybrid device; Nanoparticles; Photoelectrochemical; Semiconductor electrolyte interface; Solar to hydrogen

Indexed keywords

BARRIER; HYBRID DEVICES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLYTES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PHASE INTERFACES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PLATINUM; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 77958136840     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.860669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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