Photonic light trapping in self-organized all-oxide microspheroids impacts photoelectrochemical water splitting

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2680-2688

  Boudoire, Florent ^a,b   Toth, Rita ^a   Heier, Jakob ^a   Braun, Artur ^a   Constable, Edwin C ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HEMATITE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OXIDES; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; LOW CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL RESPONSE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING;

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EID: 84904544904     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ee00380b     Document Type: Article

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