Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 9, Pages 3116-3124Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la304377z
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- World Premier International Research Center Initiative on Materials Nanoarchitectonics, MEXT, Japan
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Nanomultiple CaFe2O4/ZnFe2O4 pn junctions are prepared by a pulsed laser deposition method to explore their photoelectrochemical properties as the photoelectrodes. It is demonstrated that the multiple-pn-junction structure is favorable to enhancing the photocurrent density and the onset potential of the photoelectrode. Furthermore, the 20-junction photoelectrode-based PEC cell yields a high open circuit photovoltage of up to 0.97 V, which is much higher than that for a single pn junction photoelectrode PEC cell that yields an open circuit photovoltage of 0.13 V. A multiple-junction band structure model is assumed to describe the behavior of the CaFe2O4/ZnFe2O4 multiple-junction photoelectrodes. It is suggested that the open circuit photovoltage is dominated by the number of pn junctions in a multiple-junction photoelectrode and the carrier transfer inside the photoelectrode is improved by narrowing the single-layer thickness. These findings provide a new approach to designing the multiple-junction structure to improve the PEC properties of the photoelectrodes.
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