Title :
Overall Water Splitting under Broadband Light Using InGaN/GaN Nanowire Heterostructures
Author :
Kibria, Md Golam ; Chowdhury, F.A. ; Nguyen, H.P.T. ; Zhao, Sicong ; Mi, Z.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
Here we report stoichiometric and stable evolution of H2 and O2 from pure (pH ~7.0) water under ultraviolet, blue and green light irradiation using wafer-scale InGaN/GaN triple-band nanowire heterostructures.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium compounds; hydrogen; indium compounds; nanophotonics; nanowires; oxygen; pH; photochemistry; semiconductor quantum wires; ultraviolet spectra; water; H2; H2O; InGaN-GaN; O2; blue light irradiation; broadband light; green light irradiation; hydrogen; indium gallium nitride-gallium nitride triple-band nanowire heterostructures; oxygen; pH 7.0; photochemical water splitting; ultraviolet light irradiation; Broadband communication; Gallium nitride; Green products; Hydrogen; Radiation effects; Scanning electron microscopy; InGaN; hydrogen; photochemical water splitting;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2766-1
DOI :
10.1109/SUM.2014.17
