Self-Assembled nanostructured photoanodes with staggered bandgap for efficient solar energy conversion

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4915-4923

  Nashed, Ramy ^a   Szymanski, Paul ^b   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^b   Allam, Nageh K ^a  

^a The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

laser dynamics; solar; staggered bandgap; Ta W O; transient absorption

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE CARRIERS; ENERGY GAP; SOLAR ENERGY; TANTALUM OXIDES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARGE CARRIER TRAPPING; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS; HF CONCENTRATION; LASER DYNAMICS; SOLAR; SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; TA-W-O; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84901675712     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5009066     Document Type: Article

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