Solar materials surfaces, structural

The cost-effective deployment of large areas of solar collectors will most probably be polycrystalline materials, with all index planes emerging at the surface. Therefore, it is not expected that the structural determination of solar materials surfaces will be applied except for a few special cases. However, determining S/S inter facial structures is important, as shown by Figs. 6-9 in Ref. 2. The challenge in solar interface research will be to understand the changes in surface activity of heterogeneous real surfaces and interfaces. Here, SEM and possibly STEM techniques should be used extensively. 

Semkonductor-Liquid Junction From Fundamentals to Solar Fuel Generating Structures, Fig, 6 Dependence of the quantum yield Q on applied potential and on effective surface recombination velocity and charge transfer rates material parameters Po = 6.25 10 cm s Lp = 500 pm Dp=. 65 cm s ... 

To the promising groups of applications envisaged back in 1969 [5], viz. sensors, photocells, solar batteries, electrostatic accumulators, photodiodes xergraphy, etc., can be added important new types of piezo ceramic elements, elastic poly(pyrrole) film (elongation >100%) useful for plasters and tubes, self dopant materials [55], printed circuits, deposition by irradiation [17], laser processing, surface structure modification [139], corrosion protection, and NLO [88]. 

Titanium dioxide (Ti02) has been attracting much attention for its important role in water photo-oxidation and photocatalyst, as well as a base material for dye-sensitized solar cells. A number of studies have been conducted on the mechanisms of interfacial photo-anodic reactions but the reported mechanisms still remain sketchy, and the detailed molecular mechanism has not yet been clarified. The main reason for confusion may arise from the possibility that the reaction mechanism depends on detailed chemical structures of the electrode surface. This implies that studies with well-defined surfaces are of key importance. 

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ZnO films can provide substantial information on chemical and electronic properties of ZnO surfaces and interfaces, which occur in real thin film solar cell structures. In addition, general information on the interface formation of oxide materials can be extracted. In the following we describe ... 

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