Issue 2, 2013

Interfaces between water splitting catalysts and buried silicon junctions

Abstract

The coupling of water-splitting catalysts to silicon photovoltaics enables direct solar-to-fuel conversion. Critical to the performance of such devices is the use of interfaces to protect silicon from the oxygen-evolving reaction (OER) and at the same time to provide Ohmic contact between the buried silicon junction and the immobilised OER catalyst. Presented herein are guidelines for constructing the Si|catalyst interface, which is a crucial building block for efficient direct solar-to-fuel conversion devices. We show that fluorinated-tin-oxide is an especially attractive interface for buried-junction devices.

Graphical abstract: Interfaces between water splitting catalysts and buried silicon junctions

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Oct 2012
Accepted
05 Dec 2012
First published
06 Dec 2012

Energy Environ. Sci., 2013,6, 532-538

Interfaces between water splitting catalysts and buried silicon junctions

C. R. Cox, M. T. Winkler, J. J. H. Pijpers, T. Buonassisi and D. G. Nocera, Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 532 DOI: 10.1039/C2EE23932A

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