RAJ GANESH S PALA
Articles written in Journal of Chemical Sciences
Volume 133 All articles Published: 7 April 2021 Article ID 0037
ASHOK KUMAR UMMIREDDI RAJ GANESH S PALA
In photoelectrochemical water splitting, every impinging photon should not only be absorbed butalso be utilized towards reaction. While increasing photoelectrode thickness in photoelectrochemical reactorsfacilitates photon absorption, it has a debilitating effect on efficiency if the thickness required for completephoton absorption is much more than the exciton diffusion length, which is a property determined by thematerial and its processing. To address this issue, we demonstrate a general experimental methodology with astack of cadmium selenide photoanodes wherein the thickness of each photoelectrode is of the order ofexciton diffusion length and which improves overall photocurrent by about 50%.
Stacked-photo anodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting reaction with each anode having thickness ~ exciton diffusion length. The fraction of light transmitted from the previous anode oxidizes water into O2 and H+. The sum of the thickness of photoanodes is sufficient to absorb all incident light.
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