Improved photoelectrochemical water splitting performance of Cu2O/SrTiO3 heterojunction photoelectrode

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 25320-25329

  Sharma, Dipika ^a   Upadhyay, Sumant ^a   Satsangi, Vibha R ^a   Shrivastav, Rohit ^a   Waghmare, Umesh V ^b   Dass, Sahab ^a  

^a DAYALBAGH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILM; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; UV-VIS SPECTROMETRY;

COPPER;

EID: 84949116524     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp507039n     Document Type: Article

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