期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 9, 期 6, 页码 5279-5287出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15168
关键词
solar water splitting; photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution; Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 photocathode; stability; overlayer
资金
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant - Korea Government (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning) [2014R1A1A1004284]
- Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP)
- Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea [20163030013690]
- [IBS-R004-G3]
We report on the photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance and stability of Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 (CIGS)-based photocathodes for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water. Various functional overlayers, such as CdS, TiO2, ZnxSnyOz, and a combination of the aforementioned, were applied on the CIGS to improve the performance and stability. We identified that the insertion of TiO2 overlayer on p-CIGS/n-buffer layers significantly improves the PEC performance. A multilayered photocathode consisting of CIGS/CdS/TiO2/Pt exhibited the best current-potential characteristics among the tested photocathodes, which demonstrates a power-saved efficiency of 2.63%. However, repeated linear sweep voltammetry resulted in degradation of performance. In this regard, we focused on the PEC durability issues through in-depth chemical characterization that revealed the degradation was attributed to atomic redistribution of elements constituting the photocathode, namely, in-diffusion of Pt catalysts, out-diffusion of elements from the CIGS, and removal of the metal-oxide layers; the best-performing CIGS/CdS/TiO2/Pt photocathode retained its initial performance until the TiO2 overlayer was removed. It was also found that the durability of CIGS photocathodes with a TiO2-coated metal-oxide buffer layer such as ZnxSnyOz was better than those with a TiO2-coated CdS, and the degradation mechanism was different, suggesting that the stability of a CIGS-based photocathode can be improved by careful design of the structure.
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