Photoanodes with Fully Controllable Texture: The Enhanced Water Splitting Efficiency of Thin Hematite Films Exhibiting Solely (110) Crystal Orientation

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 7113-7123

  Kment, Stepan ^a   Schmuki, Patrik ^b   Hubicka, Zdenek ^c   Machala, Libor ^a   Kirchgeorg, Robin ^b   Liu, Ning ^b   Wang, Lei ^b   Lee, Kiyoung ^b   Olejnicek, Jiri ^c   Cada, Martin ^c   Gregora, Ivan ^c   Zboril, Radek ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

conversion electron M ssbauer spectroscopy; Hematite; iron oxide; PEC water splitting; pulsed magnetron sputtering; texture

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HEMATITE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TEXTURES;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PULSED MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; REACTIVE MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SSBAUER SPECTROSCOPIES; TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENTS; WATER SPLITTING;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 84938154138     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01740     Document Type: Article

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