Plasmon-enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting with size-controllable gold nanodot arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10756-10765

  Kim, Hyung Ju ^a   Lee, Sang Ho ^b   Upadhye, Aniruddha A ^a   Ro, Insoo ^a   Tejedor Tejedor, M Isabel ^a   Anderson, Marc A ^a   Kim, Won Bae ^b   Huber, George W ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Au nanodot; Au TiO2 catalyst; contact printing method; plasmonic water splitting; quality factor

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOCATALYSTS; NANODOTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMONS; SOLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CONTACT PRINTING; INDIUM TIN OXIDE SUBSTRATES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; QUALITY FACTORS; TIO2 CATALYST; WATER SPLITTING;

GOLD;

EID: 84908409545     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504484u     Document Type: Article

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