Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, School of New Energy North China Electric Power University Beijing 102206 China
2. School of Physical Science and Technology Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Thin Films Center for Energy Conversion Materials & Physics (CECMP) Soochow University Suzhou 215006 China
Abstract
AbstractOxide‐based photoelectrodes commonly generate deep trap states associated with various intrinsic defects such as vacancies, antisites, and dislocations, limiting their photoelectrochemical properties. Herein, it is reported that rhombohedral GaFeO3 (GFO) thin‐film photoanodes exhibit defect‐inactive features, which manifest themselves by negligible trap‐states‐associated charge recombination losses during photoelectrochemical water splitting. Unlike conventional defect‐tolerant semiconductors, the origin of the defect‐inactivity in GFO is the strongly preferred antisite formation, suppressing the generation of other defects that act as deep traps. In addition, defect‐inactive GFO films possess really appropriate oxygen vacancy concentration for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). As a result, the as‐prepared GFO films achieve the surface charge transfer efficiency (ηsurface) of 95.1% for photoelectrochemical water splitting at 1.23 V versus RHE without any further modification, which is the highest ηsurface reported of any pristine inorganic photoanodes. The onset potential toward the OER remarkably coincides with the flat band potential of 0.43 V versus RHE. This work not only demonstrates a new benchmark for the surface charge transfer yields of pristine metal oxides for solar water splitting but also enriches the arguments for defect tolerance and highlights the importance of rational tuning of oxygen vacancies.
Funder
State Key Laboratory Of Alternate Electrical Power System With Renewable Energy Sources
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Key Research and Development Program of China
Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous),General Materials Science,General Chemical Engineering,Medicine (miscellaneous)
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