Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Spontaneous solar water splitting with decoupling of light absorption and electrocatalysis using silicon back-buried junction

  • Hui-Chun Fu,
  • Purushothaman Varadhan,
  • Chun-Ho Lin,
  • Jr-Hau He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17660-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The simultaneous management of optical, electrical, and catalytic properties is challenging for photoelectrochemical devices. Here, authors design Si back-buried junction photoelectrodes that can be series connected for unassisted water-splitting with a high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 15.62%.