Aluminum plasmonics for enhanced visible light absorption and high efficiency water splitting in core-multishell nanowire photoelectrodes with ultrathin hematite shells

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4517-4522

  Ramadurgam, Sarath ^a   Lin, Tzu Ging ^a   Yang, Chen ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aluminum plasmonics; core multishell; core shell; hematite; nanowires; plasmonic light harvesting; Solar hydrogen

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; HEMATITE; HYDROGEN; NANOWIRES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PLASMONS; SILICON; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CORE-MULTISHELL; CORE-SHELL; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PLASMONICS; SOLAR HYDROGEN;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84906100663     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501541s     Document Type: Article

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