Experimental and computational investigation of lanthanide ion doping on BiVO4 Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 122, Issue 34, 2018, Pages 19416-19424

  Govindaraju, Gokul V ^a   Morbec, Juliana M ^b,e   Galli, Giulia A ^b,c,d   Choi, Kyoung Shin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CARRIER TRANSPORT; COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY GAP; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BISMUTH VANADATES; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; INTRINSIC DEFECTS; OXIDE ELECTRONICS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85052813485     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b05503     Document Type: Article

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