Design of semiconductor oxide heterostructures for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting

Abstract

The present thesis focuses on the design and development of metal oxide based photoelectrode materials for solar driven water splitting with tunable structural and surface properties More precisely the thesis work centers on the exploration of different low cost metal oxides with bulk interfaces and surface modifications to counter the limitations like small minority carrier diffusion length poor charge transport properties and slow water oxidation kinetics etc We have used narrow band gap...