Oriented built-in electric field introduced by surface gradient diffusion doping for enhanced photocatalytic H2 evolution in CdS nanorods

Nano Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 3803-3808

  Huang, Hengming ^a,c   Dai, Baoying ^a,c   Wang, Wei ^a,b   Lu, Chunhua ^a   Kou, Jiahui ^a   Ni, Yaru ^a   Wang, Lianzhou ^c   Xu, Zhongzi ^a  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

built in electric field; CdS; gradient doping; homojunction; Hydrogen evolution

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

BUILT-IN ELECTRIC FIELDS; GRADIENT DOPING; HOMOJUNCTION; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; RECOMBINATION CENTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOCATALYST; VISIBLE LIGHT DRIVEN PHOTOCATALYSTS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 85020792852     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01147     Document Type: Article

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