Photocatalytic properties of titania thin films prepared by sputtering versus evaporation and aging of induced oxygen vacancy defects

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Volumn 180, Issue , 2016, Pages 362-371

  Henkel, Bodo ^a   Neubert, Thomas ^b   Zabel, Sebastian ^a   Lamprecht, Constanze ^a   Selhuber Unkel, Christine ^a   Rätzke, Klaus ^a   Strunskus, Thomas ^a   Vergöhl, Michael ^b   Faupel, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SURFACE ENGINEERING AND THIN FILMS IST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Evaporation; Methylene blue; Oxygen vacancy defects; Photocatalysis; Sputtering; TiO2

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ARGON; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITION; ENERGY GAP; EVAPORATION; FILM PREPARATION; GRAIN GROWTH; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NUCLEATION; OXIDE MINERALS; OXYGEN; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SPUTTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERING; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; VACANCIES; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ELECTRON BEAM EVAPORATION; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; METHYLENE BLUE; METHYLENE BLUE DEGRADATIONS; OXYGEN VACANCY DEFECTS; PULSED DC MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; TIO2; VAPOR-DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 84936074376     PISSN: 09263373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2015.06.041     Document Type: Article

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