TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hufnagel, Alexander G.
AU  - Hajiyani, Hamidreza
AU  - Zhang, Siyuan
AU  - Li, Tong
AU  - Kasian, Olga
AU  - Gault, Baptiste
AU  - Breitbach, Benjamin
AU  - Bein, Thomas
AU  - Fattakhova-Rohlfing, Dina
AU  - Scheu, Christina
AU  - Pentcheva, Rossitza
TI  - Why Tin-Doping Enhances the Efficiency of Hematite Photoanodes for Water Splitting-The Full Picture
JO  - Advanced functional materials
VL  - 28
IS  - 52
SN  - 1616-301X
CY  - Weinheim
PB  - Wiley-VCH
M1  - FZJ-2018-05416
SP  - 1804472 -
PY  - 2018
AB  - The beneficial effects of Sn(IV) as a dopant in ultrathin hematite (α‐Fe2O3) photoanodes for water oxidation are examined. Different Sn concentration profiles are prepared by alternating atomic layer deposition of Fe2O3 and SnO x . Combined data from spectrophotometry and intensity‐modulated photocurrent spectroscopy yields the individual process efficiencies for light harvesting, charge separation, and charge transfer. The best performing photoanodes are Sn‐doped both on the surface and in the subsurface region and benefit from enhanced charge separation and transfer. Sn‐doping throughout the bulk of the hematite photoanode causes segregation at the grain boundaries and hence a lower overall efficiency. Fe2O3 (0001) and terminations, shown to be dominant by microstructural analysis, are investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The energetics of surface intermediates during the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) reveal that while Sn‐doping decreases the overpotential on the (0001) surface, the Fe2O3 orientation shows one of the lowest overpotentials reported for hematite so far. Electronic structure calculations demonstrate that Sn‐doping on the surface also enhances the charge transfer efficiency by elimination of surface hole trap states (passivation) and that subsurface Sn‐doping introduces a gradient of the band edges that reinforces the band bending at the semiconductor/electrolyte interface and thus boosts charge separation.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000456422500005
DO  - DOI:10.1002/adfm.201804472
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/852485
ER  -