Photoelectrodes are the key performance-governing components of PEC solar-to-fuel/chemical conversion systems. In the past two decades, significant and steady progress has been witnessed in increments of the solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency of small-area, laboratory-scale photoelectrodes.
A " photoelectrochemical cell " is one of two distinct classes of device. The first produces electrical energy similarly to a dye-sensitized photovoltaic cell, which meets the standard definition of a photovoltaic cell.
If a photoelectrode shows any dark current at a given potential, it is usually a sign of corrosion, and thus instability. Therefore, each of the dotted line plots in Fig. 4.13 indicate that the materials are stable (i.e. do not corrode) within the potential range they are swept.
In regenerative photoelectrochemical cells, the only aim is to produce an electric current flow without net changes in either the electrolyte solution or the electrode material (Δ G = 0). These cells utilize a single redox couple in the electrolyte.
Electrons from the conduction band jump to the oxidized species in the electrolyte, and holes from the valence band jump to the reduced species. A photoelectrode also reduces the decomposition voltage of the electrolysis. Fig. 4. (a) Photoelectrochemical cell: redox system at an exposed semiconductor electrode.
The most crucial factors in developing photoelectrodes for PEC water-splitting cells are the band gap and the band position of semiconductor materials. The single organic semiconductor-based photoelectrodes are undergoing development to serve as photocathodes and photoanodes for the HER and the OER, respectively.
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