Single-Crystalline Thin Films for Studying Intrinsic Properties of BiFeO3-SrTiO3 Solid Solution Photoelectrodes in Solar Energy Conversion

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 6635-6641

  Cho, Seungho ^a   Jang, Ji Wook ^b   Zhang, Wenrui ^c   Suwardi, Ady ^a   Wang, Haiyan ^c   Wang, Dunwei ^b   MacManus Driscoll, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SOLAR ENERGY; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

BAND EDGE POSITION; CONTROL PROPERTIES; CRYSTALLINE GRAIN SIZE; FARADAIC EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE THIN FILMS;

SOLID SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84944076280     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02394     Document Type: Article

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