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PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
Volume 5, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.125403
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- Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [315M348, 119M030]
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By decorating ZnO thin films with different morphologies and materials, significant enhancement in photoelectrochemical water splitting efficiency can be achieved. ZnO NF/CIGS/In2S3 photoelectrodes demonstrated high performance, while ZnO NR/CIGS/In2S3 achieved high photocurrent density. Intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy showed higher charge transfer efficiencies and reduced surface recombination kinetics for decorated ZnO NF.
ZnO thin films in nanorod (NR) and nanoflower (NF) morphologies were used as photoelectrode scaffolds for efficient visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting process, where their decoration with copper indium gallium sulfide (CIGS) and indium sulfide (In2S3) layers resulted in significant PEC performance enhancement. ZnO NF/CIGS/In2S3 photoelectrodes exhibited a remarkably high PEC efficiency (similar to 6.0% applied bias photon-to-current efficiency, 83% incident photon-to-current efficiency) due to the negligible dark current, while ZnO NR/CIGS/In2S3 generated a photocurrent density of 30.0 mA.cm(-2) at 0.4 V (vs Ag/AgCl), being one of the highest performances reported in the literature for copper-based chalcopyrite photoelectrodes so far. The interfacial photoelectrode-electrolyte charge transport dynamics, investigated via intensity-modulated photocurrent spectroscopy, exhibited a sevenfold increase in charge transfer efficiencies with a significant drop in surface recombination kinetics for ZnO NF after CIGS/In2S3 decoration. The obtained results show consistency with numerically modeled electric field distribution profiles and electron paramagnetic resonance results of ZnO NF, rationalizing the enhanced charge transfer rates for decorated samples and confirming the defect passivating nature of CIGS/In2S3.
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