Revealing hole trapping in zinc oxide nanoparticles by time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Penfold, Thomas J ^a   Szlachetko, Jakub ^b,c   Santomauro, Fabio G ^d   Britz, Alexander ^e,f   Gawelda, Wojciech ^e,g   Doumy, Gilles ^h   March, Anne Marie ^h   Southworth, Stephen H ^h   Rittmann, Jochen ^d   Abela, Rafael ^b   Chergui, Majed ^d   Milne, Christopher J ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^g ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CATALYSIS; DISPLACEMENT; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOPARTICLE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PHOTOLYSIS; PROBE; SOLAR POWER; SPECTROMETER; TRANSITION ELEMENT; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; DECAY TIME CONSTANT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85041797490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02870-4     Document Type: Article

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