Enhancing Charge Carrier Lifetime in Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes through Mild Hydrogen Treatment

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2017, Pages

  Jang, Ji Wook ^a,d   Friedrich, Dennis ^a   Müller, Sönke ^a   Lamers, Marlene ^a   Hempel, Hannes ^a   Lardhi, Sheikha ^b   Cao, Zhen ^b   Harb, Moussab ^b   Cavallo, Luigi ^b   Heller, René ^c   Eichberger, Rainer ^a   van de Krol, Roel ^a   Abdi, Fatwa F ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

BiVO4; carrier lifetime; hydrogen treatment; solar water splitting; time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CARRIER MOBILITY; CARRIER TRANSPORT; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; VANADIUM; WATER TREATMENT;

BISMUTH VANADATES; BIVO4; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; HYDROGEN TREATMENTS; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSPORT LIMITATIONS; TRAP-ASSISTED RECOMBINATIONS;

CARRIER LIFETIME;

EID: 85028299000     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201701536     Document Type: Article

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