Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
UMR12 CEA-CNRS, Bât. 563 CEA Saclay
91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
+33-169085241 llb-sec@cea.fr
The transformation of solar energy into chemical energy stored in the form of hydrogen, through photoelectrochemical water splitting is a promising method with the important advantage of being environment friendly and free from carbon dioxide emission. Several metal oxide semiconductors are able to split water into hydrogen and oxygen but the efficiencies are still low. Several strategies were proposed to improve the photoelectrochemical properties like doping or nanostucturing, but the origin of the improvement is not well understood yet. In the laboratory, we study the photo-electrochemical activity of thin epitaxial oxide films in order to understand the influence of different parameters on the photoanode efficiency.
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Tuning the Charge Carriers Migration in Epitaxial BaTiO3 Thin-Film Photoanodes,H. Magnan, P. M. Deleuze, J. Brehin, T. Plays, D. Stanescu, W. R. Flavell, M. G. Silly, B. Domenichini, and A. Barbier, J. Phys. Chem C 124, 10315 (2020)
Epitaxial tio2 thin film photoanodes : influence of crystallographic structure and substrate nature, H. Magnan, D. Stanescu, M. Rioult, E. Fonda, A. Barbier, Phys Chem C 123, 5240 (2019)
Electrostriction, Electroresistance, and Electromigration in Epitaxial BaTiO3‑Based Heterostructures: Role of Interfaces and Electric Poling, D. Stanescu, H. Magnan, B. Sarpi, M. Rioult, T. Aghavnian, J-B Moussy, C.L. Rountree, A. Barbier, ACS Appl. Nano. Matter 2, 3556 (2019)
Resonant PhotoEmission Spectroscopy investigation of Fe2O3 – TiO2 heterojunctions for solar water splitting M. Riolult, D. Stanescu, P. le fevre, A. Barbier,H. Magnan Physics Procedia 85, 4 (2016)
Oxygen Vacancies Engineering of Iron Oxides Films for Solar Water Splitting, M. Rioult, D. Stanescu, E. Fonda, A. Barbier, H. Magnan, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120 (14), pp 7482–7490 (2016)
Tailoring the photocurrent in BaTiO3/Nb:SrTiO3 photoanodes by controlled ferroelectric polarization, M. Rioult, S. Datta, D. Stanescu, S. Stanescu, R. Belkhou, F. Maccherozzi, H. Magnan, A. Barbier, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 103901 (2015)
Local electronic structure and photoelectrochemical activity of partial chemically etched Ti doped hematite, M. Rioult, R. Belkhou, H. Magnan, D. Stanescu, S. Stanescu, F. Maccherozzi, C. L. Rountree, A. Barbier, Surf. Sci. 641, 310 (2015)
Single crystalline hematite films for solar water splitting: Ti-doping and thickness effect M. Rioult, H. Magnan, D. Stanescu, A. Barbier, J. Phys. Chem C. 118, 3007 (2014)
Enhanced photo-anode properties of epitaxial Ti doped a-Fe2O3 (0001) thin films, H. Magnan, D. Stanescu, M. Rioult, E. Fonda, A. Barbier, Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 133908(2012).
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• Matériaux des nouvelles technologies pour l’énergie › Conversion de l'énergie
• Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay • UMR 3680 - Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics (SPEC) • UMR 3680 - Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé (SPEC)
• Laboratoire Nano-Magnétisme et Oxydes (LNO)
• AO-MBE Oxydes à SPEC / LNO • Diffraction d'électrons (LEED et RHEED) • Spectrométrie de photoélectrons X (XPS)