On the measured optical bandgap values of inorganic oxide semiconductors for solar fuels generation
| Autor: | Krishnan Rajeshwar, Mohammad Kabir Hossain, Csaba Janáky, Gergely F. Samu, Daipayan Roy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Band gap
Chemistry business.industry Photoelectrochemistry Inorganic chemistry Doping 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Catalysis 0104 chemical sciences law.invention Quantization (physics) Semiconductor law Solar cell Photocatalysis Optoelectronics 0210 nano-technology Ternary operation business |
| Zdroj: | Catalysis Today. 300:136-144 |
| ISSN: | 0920-5861 |
| Popis: | This article focuses on variation in the values for the optical bandgaps ( E g ) experimentally reported for fourteen oxide semiconductors that have been studied for solar photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic environmental remediation applications. Both binary and ternary compounds have been included in this study. The variance in the reported values is much more severe for the ternary compounds relative to the binary counterparts. Factors related to semiconductor doping and size quantization have been carefully removed from playing a role in the presented data. Instead the variability is attributed to intrinsic errors associated with the extraction of E g values from spectral data (for example, via Tauc plots), and to other sample-related factors such as surface functional groups and compound non-stoichiometry. Finally, suggestions for future, follow-up study are also given. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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