Effects of temperature, triazole and hot-pressing on the performance of TiO2 photoanode in a solid-state photoelectrochemical cell

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 115, Issue , 2014, Pages 66-74

  Iwu, Kingsley O ^a   Galeckas, Augustinas ^a   Diplas, Spyros ^a,b   Seland, Frode ^c   Kuznetsov, Andrej Yu ^a   Norby, Truls ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carrier lifetime; Photoelectrochemical; Solid state; Triazole; XPS

Indexed keywords

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; OPTICAL ABSORPTION EDGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; PROTON-CONDUCTING MEMBRANES; SOLID-STATE; TRIAZOLE;

BINDING ENERGY; CARRIER LIFETIME; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84887580732     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.10.095     Document Type: Article

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