Band gap engineering in huge-gap semiconductor SrZrO3 for visible-light photocatalysis

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2042-2048

  Guo, Zhonglu ^a,b   Sa, Baisheng ^a   Pathak, Biswarup ^c   Zhou, Jian ^a,b   Ahuja, Rajeev ^d,e   Sun, Zhimei ^a,b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INDORE   (India)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculation; Huge band gap; Visible light photocatalysis; Water splitting

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; BAND GAP ENGINEERING; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; HYBRID DENSITY FUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; VISIBLE-LIGHT PHOTOCATALYSIS; WATER SPLITTING;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84892364434     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.11.055     Document Type: Article

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