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2016 (English)In: Materials Science Forum, Trans Tech Publications Ltd , 2016, Vol. 858, p. 1028-1031Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
There is a strong and growing worldwide research on exploring renewable energy resources. Solar energy is the most abundant, inexhaustible and clean energy source, but there are profound material challenges to capture, convert and store solar energy. In this work, we explore 3C-SiC as an attractive material towards solar-driven energy conversion applications: (i) Boron doped 3C-SiC as candidate for an intermediate band photovoltaic material, and (ii) 3C-SiC as a photoelectrode for solar-driven water splitting. Absorption spectrum of boron doped 3C-SiC shows a deep energy level at ~0.7 eV above the valence band edge. This indicates that boron doped 3C-SiC may be a good candidate as an intermediate band photovoltaic material, and that bulk like 3C-SiC can have sufficient quality to be a promising electrode for photoelectrochemical water splitting. © 2016 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2016
Series
Materials Science Forum, ISSN 0255-5476 ; 868
Keywords
Cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC); Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting; Solar cell
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-129242 (URN)10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.858.1028 (DOI)2-s2.0-84971577103 (Scopus ID)9783035710427 (ISBN)
Conference
16th International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials, ICSCRM 2015
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