Oxidatively Stable Nanoporous Silicon Photocathodes with Enhanced Onset Voltage for Photoelectrochemical Proton Reduction

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2517-2525

  Zhao, Y ^a,c   Anderson, N C ^a   Zhu, K ^a   Aguiar, J A ^a   Seabold, J A ^a   Van De Lagemaat, J ^a   Branz, H M ^a   Neale, N R ^a   Oh, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hydrogen production; nanoporous silicon; Photoelectrochemical water splitting; silicon photoelectrode; surface oxidation

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CATALYSTS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETCHING; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM; PLATINUM METALS; PROTONS; REDUCTION; SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SILVER; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALLINE SILICON SURFACES; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; NANO-POROUS SILICON; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTRODE; REVERSIBLE HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; SURFACE OXIDATIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROGRAPH;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84926631957     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00086     Document Type: Review

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