Down-conversion photoluminescence sensitizing plasmonic silver nanoparticles on ZnO nanorods to generate hydrogen by water splitting photochemistry

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kung, Po Yen ^a   Huang, Li Wen ^a   Shen, Tin Wei ^a   Wang, Wen Lin ^a   Su, Yen Hsun ^a   Lin, Melody I ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PLASMONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ZINC OXIDE;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ANODE ELECTRODES; ORGANIC PIGMENTS; PHOTOELECTRIC CURRENT; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SCATTERING REGIME; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING;

SILVER;

EID: 84923794664     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4901944     Document Type: Article

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