Enabling unassisted solar water splitting by iron oxide and silicon

Jang, Ji-Wook; Du, Chun; Ye, Yifan; Lin, Yongjing; Yao, Xiahui; Thorne, James; Liu, Erik; McMahon, Gregory; Zhu, Junfa; Javey, Ali; Guo, Jinghua; Wang, Dunwei

doi:10.1038/ncomms8447

Title: Enabling unassisted solar water splitting by iron oxide and silicon

Journal Article · Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8447· OSTI ID:1256030

Jang, Ji-Wook ^[1]; Du, Chun ^[1]; Ye, Yifan ^[2]; Lin, Yongjing ^[3]; Yao, Xiahui ^[1]; Thorne, James ^[1]; Liu, Erik ^[1]; McMahon, Gregory ^[1]; Zhu, Junfa ^[4]; Javey, Ali ^[3]; Guo, Jinghua ^[5]; Wang, Dunwei ^[1]

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Science and Technology, Hefei (China)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of Science and Technology, Hefei (China)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

A solution for large-scale solar energy storage is photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. However, its development has been impeded by the poor performance of photoanodes, particularly in their capability for photovoltage generation. Many examples employing photovoltaic modules to correct the deficiency for unassisted solar water splitting have been reported to-date. We show that, by using the prototypical photoanode material of haematite as a study tool, structural disorders on or near the surfaces are important causes of the low photovoltages. We develop a facile re-growth strategy to reduce surface disorders and as a consequence, a turn-on voltage of 0.45 V (versus reversible hydrogen electrode) is achieved. In conclusion, this result permits us to construct a photoelectrochemical device with a haematite photoanode and Si photocathode to split water at an overall efficiency of 0.91%, with NiFeOx and TiO2/Pt overlayers, respectively.

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