Wu, J;
Li, Y;
Kubota, J;
Domen, K;
Aagesen, M;
Ward, T;
Sanchez, A;
... Liu, H; + view all
(2014)
Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Self-Catalyzed 1.7 eV GaAsP Core-Shell Nanowire Photocathode on Silicon Substrates.
Nano Letters
, 14
(4)
pp. 2013-2018.
10.1021/nl500170m.
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Abstract
We present the wafer-scale fabrication of self-catalyzed p-n homojunction 1.7 eV GaAsP core-shell nanowire photocathodes grown on silicon substrates by molecular beam epitaxy with the incorporation of Pt nanoparticles as hydrogen evolution cocatalysts. Under AM 1.5G illumination, the GaAsP nanowire photocathode yielded a photocurrent density of 4.5 mA/cm(2) at 0 V versus a reversible hydrogen electrode and a solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 0.5%, which are much higher than the values previously reported for wafer-scale III-V nanowire photocathodes. In addition, GaAsP has been found to be more resistant to photocorrosion than InGaP. These results open up a new approach to develop efficient tandem photoelectrochemical devices via fabricating GaAsP nanowires on a silicon platform.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Self-Catalyzed 1.7 eV GaAsP Core-Shell Nanowire Photocathode on Silicon Substrates |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1021/nl500170m |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl500170m |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1428980 |
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