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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 110, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3671414
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
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We have synthesized pure and Ti-alloyed hematite thin films on F doped SnO2 coated glass substrates by radio frequency magnetron co-sputtering of iron oxide and titanium targets in mixed Ar/O-2 and mixed N-2/O-2 ambient. We found that the hematite films deposited in the N-2/O-2 ambient exhibit much poorer crystallinity than the films deposited in the Ar/O-2 ambient. We determined that Ti alloying leads to increased electron carrier concentration and crystallinity, and reduced bandgaps. Moreover, Ti-alloyed hematite thin films exhibited improved photoelectrochemical performance as compared with the pure hematite films: The photocurrents were enhanced and the photocurrent onset shifted to less positive potentials. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3671414]
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