Cost-effective fabrication of nanostructured zinc oxide based electrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting
By Pelin Komurcu and Emre Kaan Can and Erkan Aydin and Levent Semiz and Mehmet Sankir and Nurdan Demirci Sankir
Published in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing
2016
Abstract
In this study nanostructures of the zinc oxide (ZnO) photoelectrodes were synthesized via facile chemical bath deposition. Effects of the seed layer on the ZnO nanowire formation and the photoelectrochemical (PEC) properties have been investigated. Also silver (Ag) nano-islands were deposited on top of ZnO nanofilms to localize the photon absorption at the surface. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) measurements indicated that the ZnO nanowire arrays and ZnO