High-Performance a-Si/c-Si Heterojunction Photoelectrodes for Photoelectrochemical Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution

Hsin-Ping Wang; Ke Sun; Sun Young Noh; Alireza Kargar; Meng-Lin Tsai; Ming-Yi Huang; Deli Wang; Jr-Hau He

doi:10.1021/nl5041463

High-Performance a-Si/c-Si Heterojunction Photoelectrodes for Photoelectrochemical Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution

Hsin-Ping Wang, Ke Sun, Sun Young Noh, Alireza Kargar, Meng-Lin Tsai, Ming-Yi Huang, Deli Wang^*, Jr-Hau He^*

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Abstract

Amorphous Si (a-Si)/crystalline Si (c-Si) heterojunction (SiHJ) can serve as highly efficient and robust photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation. Low carrier recombination in the photoelectrodes leads to high photocurrents and photovoltages. The SiHJ was designed and fabricated into both photoanode and photocathode with high oxygen and hydrogen evolution efficiency, respectively, by simply coating of a thin layer of catalytic materials. The SiHJ photoanode with sol-gel NiO_x as the catalyst shows a current density of 21.48 mA/cm² at the equilibrium water oxidation potential. The SiHJ photocathode with 2 nm sputter-coated Pt catalyst displays excellent hydrogen evolution performance with an onset potential of 0.640 V and a solar to hydrogen conversion efficiency of 13.26%, which is the highest ever reported for Si-based photocathodes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2817-2824
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	15
Issue number	5
Online published	9 Feb 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl5041463
Publication status	Published - 13 May 2015
Externally published	Yes

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hydrogen evolution
oxygen evolution
Si heterojunction photoelectrodes
solar to hydrogen conversion efficiency
solar to oxygen conversion efficiency

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