High performance nanostructured Silicon heterojunction for water splitting on large scales
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PresentationKAUST Department
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science ProgramComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering Program
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
PRIMALIGHT Research Group
Date
2017-11-02Online Publication Date
2017-11-02Print Publication Date
2017-06Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/626117
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In past years the global demand for energy has been increasing steeply, as well as the awareness that new sources of clean energy are essential. Photo-electrochemical devices (PEC) for water splitting applications have stirred great interest, and different approach has been explored to improve the efficiency of these devices and to avoid optical losses at the interfaces with water. These include engineering materials and nanostructuring the device's surfaces [1]-[2]. Despite the promising initial results, there are still many drawbacks that needs to be overcome to reach large scale production with optimized performances [3]. We present a new device that relies on the optimization of the nanostructuring process that exploits suitably disordered surfaces. Additionally, this device could harvest light on both sides to efficiently gain and store the energy to keep the photocatalytic reaction active.Citation
Bonifazi M, Fu HC, He JH, Fratalocchi A (2017) High performance nanostructured Silicon heterojunction for water splitting on large scales. 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC). Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2017.8086647.Additional Links
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8086647/ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2017.8086647