Monolithic Photoelectrochemical Device for Direct Water Splitting with 19% Efficiency

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1795-1800

  Cheng, Wen Hui ^a,b   Richter, Matthias H ^b,c   May, Matthias M ^d,e,f   Ohlmann, Jens ^g   Lackner, David ^g   Dimroth, Frank ^g   Hannappel, Thomas ^f   Atwater, Harry A ^a,b   Lewerenz, Hans Joachim ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^f ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); CATALYST ACTIVITY; CORROSION PROTECTION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOCATALYSTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER ABSORPTION;

DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; LIGHT ABSORPTION AND REFLECTION; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; SEMICONDUCTOR CONDUCTION; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; SURFACE REFLECTIVITY;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 85049243958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00920     Document Type: Article

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