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Title: Semi-transparent quaternary oxynitride photoanodes on GaN underlayers

Abstract

Conformal atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique is employed to make semi-transparent TaOxNy, providing the possibility to build semi-transparent oxy(nitride) heterojunction photoanodes on conductive substrates. A generalized approach was developed to manufacture semi-transparent quaternary metal oxynitrides on conductive substrates beyond semi-transparent binary Ta3N5 photoanodes aiming for wireless tandem photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
  2. Łukasiewicz Research Network, Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Wolczynska 133, 01-919 Warsaw, Poland
  3. Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
  4. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
  5. Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
  6. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany, Hoffmann Institute of Advanced Materials
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
OSTI Identifier:
1670500
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1784249
Grant/Contract Number:  
Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (no. DE-SC-0020301); SC0020301
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
ChemComm
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: ChemComm Journal Volume: 56 Journal Issue: 86; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY

Citation Formats

Ma, Zili, Piętak, Karolina, Piątek, Jędrzej, Reed DeMoulpied, Justin, Rokicińska, Anna, Kuśtrowski, Piotr, Dronskowski, Richard, Zlotnik, Sebastian, Coridan, Robert H., and Slabon, Adam. Semi-transparent quaternary oxynitride photoanodes on GaN underlayers. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1039/D0CC04894A.
Ma, Zili, Piętak, Karolina, Piątek, Jędrzej, Reed DeMoulpied, Justin, Rokicińska, Anna, Kuśtrowski, Piotr, Dronskowski, Richard, Zlotnik, Sebastian, Coridan, Robert H., & Slabon, Adam. Semi-transparent quaternary oxynitride photoanodes on GaN underlayers. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04894A
Ma, Zili, Piętak, Karolina, Piątek, Jędrzej, Reed DeMoulpied, Justin, Rokicińska, Anna, Kuśtrowski, Piotr, Dronskowski, Richard, Zlotnik, Sebastian, Coridan, Robert H., and Slabon, Adam. Thu . "Semi-transparent quaternary oxynitride photoanodes on GaN underlayers". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04894A.
@article{osti_1670500,
title = {Semi-transparent quaternary oxynitride photoanodes on GaN underlayers},
author = {Ma, Zili and Piętak, Karolina and Piątek, Jędrzej and Reed DeMoulpied, Justin and Rokicińska, Anna and Kuśtrowski, Piotr and Dronskowski, Richard and Zlotnik, Sebastian and Coridan, Robert H. and Slabon, Adam},
abstractNote = {Conformal atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique is employed to make semi-transparent TaOxNy, providing the possibility to build semi-transparent oxy(nitride) heterojunction photoanodes on conductive substrates. A generalized approach was developed to manufacture semi-transparent quaternary metal oxynitrides on conductive substrates beyond semi-transparent binary Ta3N5 photoanodes aiming for wireless tandem photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells.},
doi = {10.1039/D0CC04894A},
journal = {ChemComm},
number = 86,
volume = 56,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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