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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 113, Issue 32, Pages 14575-14581Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp904297v
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
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A composite semiconductor electrode with the structure n-Si/p-CuI/ITO/n-i-p a-Si/n-p GaP/ITO/RuO2 was fabricated for the purpose of achieving efficient solar water splitting. The electrode showed a stable photoanodic current due to oxygen evolution with a large negative photoshift (V-p) of about 2.2 V from an anodic current at a RuO2 electrode. The photoshift was large enough for full water splitting. A photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell, composed of the composite electrode, a Pt counter electrode, and 0.10 M Na2SO4 (pH 6.3), generated a photocurrent density of 1.88 mA cm(-2) under simulated solar illumination (AM 1.5 G, 100 mW cm(-2)), yielding a solar to chemical conversion efficiency of 2.3% as calculated from the photocurrent value. The result has shown that the combination of crystalline Si/a-Si/GaP is suitable for efficient solar water splitting. It is shown that the efficiency can be increased by use of GaP with a well-regulated p-n junction.
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