Enhancement of the Photoelectrochemical Performance of WO3 Vertical Arrays Film for Solar Water Splitting by Gadolinium Doping

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 14834-14842

  Liu, Yang ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Li, Wenzhang ^a   Yang, Yahui ^b   Li, Yaomin ^c   Chen, Qiyuan ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONS; RARE EARTHS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; MOTT-SCHOTTKY ANALYSIS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84936863343     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00966     Document Type: Article

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