Transparent-conducting-oxide nanowire arrays for efficient photoelectrochemical energy conversion

Sangwook Lee, Sangbaek Park, Gill San Han, Dong Hoe Kim, Jun Hong Noh, In Sun Cho, Hyun Suk Jung, Kug Sun Hong

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Abstract

We report one dimensional (1-D) transparent-conducting-oxide arrays coated with light-absorbing semiconductors to simultaneously maximize light harvesting and charge collection in a photoelectrochemical (PEC) system. Tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) nanowire (NW) arrays are prepared on ITO thin-film substrates as the transparent-conducting-oxide, and TiO2 or CdSe/CdS/TiO2 thin layers were coated on the ITO NW arrays as the solar light-absorbing layers. The optimal PEC performance, 0.85% under 100 mW cm-2 of light illumination, is obtained from ∼30 μm-long ITO NW, which is covered with ∼20 nm-thick TiO2 nanoshell. We finally demonstrate that the ITO NW-based photoelectrode is also compatible with one of the most efficient visible-light sensitizers, the CdS/CdSe quantum dot. Our approach using the transparent conducting 1-D array has wide potential to improve the PEC performances of conventional semiconducting materials through liberation from the poor charge transport. This journal is

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8649-8655
Number of pages7
JournalNanoscale
Volume6
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Aug 7
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science

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