Effect of Substrates on the Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Water over Cathodically Electrodeposited p-Type Cu2O Thin Films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 18344-18352

  Shyamal, Sanjib ^a   Hajra, Paramita ^a   Mandal, Harahari ^a   Singh, Jitendra Kumar ^b   Satpati, Ashis Kumar ^c   Pande, Surojit ^d   Bhattacharya, Chinmoy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^d BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

action spectra; cathodic electrodeposition; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; ohmic conductivity; photoelectrochemical reduction of water; semiconductor photoelectrochemistry

Indexed keywords

CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; COPPER OXIDES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; ENERGY GAP; METAL CLADDING; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE FILMS; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; THIN FILMS; TIN OXIDES; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACTION SPECTRA; CATHODIC ELECTRODEPOSITION; OHMIC CONDUCTIVITY; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84940560581     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04116     Document Type: Article

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