Interstitial Lithium Doping in BiVO4 Thin Film Photoanode for Enhanced Solar Water Splitting Activity

Zhou, Chenyu; Sanders-Bellis, Zachary; Smart, Tyler J.; Zhang, Wenrui; Zhang, Lihua; Ping, Yuan; Liu, Mingzhao

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01481

Interstitial Lithium Doping in BiVO₄ Thin Film Photoanode for Enhanced Solar Water Splitting Activity

Journal Article · Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Chemistry of Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01481· OSTI ID:1661644

^[1]; Sanders-Bellis, Zachary ^[2]; Smart, Tyler J. ^[2]; ^[3]; Zhang, Lihua ^[3]; ^[2]; ^[3]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

As one of the most promising candidates of photoanode material, bismuth vanadate (BiVO₄) has been paid wide attention and achieved remarkable progress. However, the full exploitation of solar-energy-conversion potential of bismuth vanadate (BiVO₄) is still limited by poor charge transport. Introducing dopants into BiVO₄ has been proved to be a feasible method to improve the photoelectrochemical water splitting performance. In this work, lithium is introduced as an interstitial dopant to crystalline BiVO₄ thin film photoanode, with the aid of pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Solid-state transport characterization demonstrates increased carrier density and electron conductivity in BiVO₄ bulk due to interstitial lithium doping, which also increased the photocurrent and photon-to-current conversion efficiency both by up to 20% for solar water splitting. Finally, computational results based on density functional theory determine the effect of lithium doping on the electronic and atomic structures of BiVO₄ and verify the role of lithium dopant as a shallow donor that improves the conductivity of BiVO₄.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1661644

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1690130

Report Number(s):: BNL--219833-2020-JAAM

Journal Information:: Chemistry of Materials, Journal Name: Chemistry of Materials Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 32; ISSN 0897-4756

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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