Enhanced optical absorption and photocatalytic activity of anatase TiO 2 through (Si,Ni) codoping

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lin, Yanming ^a   Jiang, Zhenyi ^a   Zhu, Chaoyuan ^b   Hu, Xiaoyun ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Zhu, Haiyan ^a   Fan, Jun ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PERFORMANCE; ANATASE TIO; CO-DOPED; CO-DOPING; NANOCRYSTALLINES; OPTICAL ABSORPTION EDGE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; TIO; VISIBLE LIGHT;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SILICON; SOL-GELS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84865112814     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4745193     Document Type: Article

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