Solar Hydrogen Production by Amorphous Silicon Photocathodes Coated with a Magnetron Sputter Deposited Mo2C Catalyst

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 137, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 7035-7038

  Morales Guio, Carlos G ^a   Thorwarth, Kerstin ^b   Niesen, Bjoern ^a   Liardet, Laurent ^a   Patscheider, Jörg ^b   Ballif, Christophe ^a   Hu, Xile ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; PHOTOCATHODES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE REACTIONS;

ALKALINE ELECTROLYTES; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTIONS; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; SOLAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SOLAR ILLUMINATION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

HYDROGEN; MOLYBDENUM CARBIDE; MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX; SILICON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CURRENT DENSITY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; ILLUMINATION; MICROWAVE OVEN;

EID: 84935907261     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03417     Document Type: Article

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