期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 12, 期 25, 页码 28792-28800出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c05591
关键词
photoelectrochemical cell; silicon nanowire; carbon quantum dots; surface plasmon; nano-heterostructure
资金
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata
- Dept. of Science and Technology [DST/TMD/HFC/2k18/138]
- SERB Project [ECR/2018/001491]
- INSPIRE Faculty [IFA13-PH-51]
Because of the excellent electronic properties, Si is a well-established semiconducting material for PV technology. However, slow kinetics and a fast corroding nature make Si inefficient for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in photoelectrochemical (PEC) applications. Herein, we demonstrate a multifacet Si nanowire (SiNW) decorated with surface plasmon-enhanced carbon quantum dots (AuCQDs) as efficient, stable, economical, and scalable photocathodes (PCs) for HER. The PEC performance of SiNW_AuCQDs has more than a fourfold efficiency enhancement than the pristine SiNW, which we have attributed to the combined effect of enhanced solar absorption and efficient carrier transport. The optimized PC SiNW_AuCQDs results in the highest photocurrent similar to 1.7 mA/cm(2), an applied bias photon-to-current conversion efficiency of similar to 0.8%, and H-2 gas evolution rate of similar to 182.93 mu mol.h(-1). Furthermore, these SiNW_AuCQDs PCs provide extraordinary stability under continuous operating conditions with 1 sun illumination (100 mW/cm(2)). The process-line compatible fabrication process of these PCs will open a new direction at the wafer-level designing of a heterostructure for large-scale solar-fuel conversion.
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