Efficient mesoporous/nanostructured Ag-doped alloy semiconductor for solar hydrogen generation

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lashgari, Mohsen ^a,b   Ghanimati, Majid ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^b Center of Climate Changes and Global Warming ^*  (Iran)

Author keywords

mesoporous semiconductors; nanoflake; plasmon resonance; silver effect; solar hydrogen; water photosplitting

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC SULFIDE;

MESOPOROUS SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOFLAKE; PLASMON RESONANCES; SILVER-EFFECT; SOLAR HYDROGEN; WATER PHOTOSPLITTING;

SILVER ALLOYS;

EID: 84924374338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.4.044099     Document Type: Article

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