Heterogeneous Doping to Improve the Performance of Thin-Film Hematite Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 827-833

  Kay, Asaf ^a   Grave, Daniel A ^a   Ellis, David S ^a   Dotan, Hen ^a   Rothschild, Avner ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATITE; PHOTOCURRENTS; SUBSTRATES;

COATED GLASS SUBSTRATES; DOPING PROFILES; ONSET POTENTIAL; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-ELECTRODES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; UNDERLAYERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 85027351716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00287     Document Type: Article

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