High Throughput Light Absorber Discovery, Part 2: Establishing Structure-Band Gap Energy Relationships

ACS Combinatorial Science

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 682-688

  Suram, Santosh K ^a   Newhouse, Paul F ^a   Zhou, Lan ^a   Van Campen, Douglas G ^b   Mehta, Apurva ^b   Gregoire, John M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

band gap; combinatorial science; high throughput screening; optical spectroscopy; solar fuels; UV vis spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; BISMUTH OXIDE; FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; VANADIUM DERIVATIVE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; PROCEDURES; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BISMUTH; ENERGY TRANSFER; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84995783645     PISSN: 21568952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.6b00054     Document Type: Article

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