Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Nanoscale imaging of charge carrier transport in water splitting photoanodes

  • Johanna Eichhorn,
  • Christoph Kastl,
  • Jason K. Cooper,
  • Dominik Ziegler,
  • Adam M. Schwartzberg,
  • Ian D. Sharp,
  • Francesca M. Toma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04856-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The performance of energy materials is affected by structural defects, as well as physicochemical heterogeneity over different length scales. Here the authors map nanoscale correlations between morphological and functional heterogeneity, quantifying the trap states limiting electronic transport in bismuth vanadate thin films.