Citation
Sun, Jianwu and Jokubavicius, Valdas and Gao, Lu and Booker, Ian and Jansson, Mattias and Liu, Xinyu and Hofmann, Jan P. and Hensen, Emiel J.M. and Linnarsson, Margareta and Wellmann, Peter and Ramiro Gonzalez, Iñigo and Martí Vega, Antonio and Yakimova, Rositsa and Syväjärvi, Mikael
(2016).
Solar driven energy conversion applications based on 3C-SiC.
"Materials Science Forum", v. 858
;
pp. 1028-1031.
ISSN 1662-9752.
https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.858.1028.
Abstract
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.
