Photoelectrochemical water splitting properties of hydrothermally-grown ZnO nanorods with controlled diameters

Electronic Materials Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-72

  Babu, Eadi Sunil ^a   Hong, Soon Ku ^a   Vo, Thanh Son ^a   Jeong, Jong Ryul ^a   Cho, Hyung Koun ^b  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hydrothermal growth; Photoconversion efficiency; Photoelectrochemical; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICA; SILICON; TIN OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE;

HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH; INDIUM TIN OXIDE SUBSTRATES; PHOTOCONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SIMULATED SOLAR LIGHT; UV-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

NANORODS;

EID: 84922380037     PISSN: 17388090     EISSN: 20936788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13391-014-4227-y     Document Type: Article

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