Direct Mapping of Band Positions in Doped and Undoped Hematite during Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 2017, Pages 5579-5586

  Shavorskiy, Andrey ^a,d   Ye, Xiaofei ^b   Karslloǧlu, Osman ^a   Poletayev, Andrey D ^b   Hartl, Matthias ^a,e   Zegkinoglou, Ioannis ^a,f   Trotochaud, Lena ^a   Nemšák, Slavomir ^a,c   Schneider, Claus M ^c   Crumlin, Ethan J ^a   Axnanda, Stephanus ^a,g   Liu, Zhi ^a,h   Ross, Philip N ^a   Chueh, William ^b   Bluhm, Hendrik ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^g BASF   (United States)

^h SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTES; HEMATITE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PROBES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR ENERGY;

APPLIED POTENTIALS; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; HETEROGENEOUS INTERFACES; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL REACTION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; SEMICONDUCTOR/ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85034269763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02548     Document Type: Article

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