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@ARTICLE{Urbain:280644,
author = {Urbain, Felix and Smirnov, Vladimir and Becker, Jan Philipp
and Lambertz, Andreas and Yang, Florent and Ziegler, Jürgen
and Kaiser, Bernhard and Jaegermann, Wolfram and Rau, Uwe
and Finger, Friedhelm},
title = {{M}ultijunction {S}i photocathodes with tunable
photovoltages from 2.0 {V} to 2.8 {V} for light induced
water splitting},
journal = {Energy $\&$ environmental science},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
issn = {1754-5706},
address = {Cambridge},
publisher = {RSC Publ.},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-00409},
pages = {145 - 154},
year = {2016},
abstract = {We report on the development of high performance triple and
quadruple junction solar cells made of amorphous (a-Si:H)
and microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) for the application
as photocathodes in integrated
photovoltaic–electrosynthetic devices for solar water
splitting. We show that the electronic properties of the
individual sub cells can be adjusted such that the
photovoltages of multijunction devices cover a wide range of
photovoltages from 2.0 V up to 2.8 V with photovoltaic
efficiencies of $13.6\%$ for triple and $13.2\%$ for
quadruple cells. The ability to provide self-contained solar
water splitting is demonstrated in a PV-biased
electrosynthetic (PV-EC) cell. With the developed triple
junction photocathode in the a-Si:H/a-Si:H/μc-Si:H
configuration we achieved an operation photocurrent density
of 7.7 mA cm−2 at 0 V applied bias using a Ag/Pt layer
stack as photocathode/electrolyte contact and ruthenium
oxide as counter electrode. Assuming a faradaic efficiency
of $100\%,$ this corresponds to a solar-to-hydrogen
efficiency of $9.5\%.$ The quadruple junction device
provides enough excess voltage to substitute precious metal
catalyst, such as Pt by more earth-abundant materials, such
as Ni without impairing the solar-to-hydrogen efficiency.},
cin = {IEK-5},
ddc = {690},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-5-20101013},
pnm = {121 - Solar cells of the next generation (POF3-121) / HITEC
- Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy
and Climate Research (HITEC) (HITEC-20170406)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-121 / G:(DE-Juel1)HITEC-20170406},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000367622700017},
doi = {10.1039/C5EE02393A},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/280644},
}