Proton-Induced Trap States, Injection and Recombination Dynamics in Water-Splitting Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 26, 2016, Pages 16727-16735

  McCool, Nicholas S ^a   Swierk, John R ^b   Nemes, Coleen T ^b   Saunders, Timothy P ^a   Schmuttenmaer, Charles A ^b   Mallouk, Thomas E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

charge recombination; solar energy; terahertz spectroscopy; trap states; water splitting

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRAPPING; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; METALS; MOLECULES; OXIDATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE STATES; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; WATER INJECTION;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; TRAP STATE; WATER OXIDATION CATALYSTS; WATER SPLITTING;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84977635915     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05362     Document Type: Article

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