Metal on metal oxide nanowire Co-catalyzed Si photocathode for solar water splitting

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Ke ^a   Madsen, Kristian ^a,b   Andersen, Pål ^c   Bao, Weining ^d   Sun, Zhelin ^a   Wang, Deli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODIC PHOTOCURRENT; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CO CATALYSTS; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; METAL PHOTOCATHODE; METAL-ON-METAL; NANOCRYSTALLINE THIN FILMS; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; NI METAL; P-TYPE SI; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CONVERSION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SCALABLE METHODS; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; SURFACE AREA; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; THIN METAL COATING; WATER SPLITTING; ZNO; ZNO ELECTRODES; ZNO NANOWIRES;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANOWIRES; PALLADIUM; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PLATINUM; SCALABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILICON;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84860321939     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/19/194013     Document Type: Article

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