Schottky junction/ohmic contact behavior of a nanoporous TiO₂ thin film photoanode in contact with redox electrolyte solutions

• Masao Kaneko,
• Hirohito Ueno and
• Junichi Nemoto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 127–134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.15

• potential; nanoporous TiO2 thin film; photocurrent; Schottky junction and ohmic contact; Introduction Photoelectrocatalytic reactions at semiconductor electrodes were investigated before the 1960s [1][2]. A semiconductor electrode forms a type of Schottky junction with liquid electrolytes called a liquid

• simultaneously both Schottky junction and ohmic contact behavior. Sensitization and electron transfer in TiO2 nanoparticles and nanoporous electrodes by [Fe(CN)6]4− has been thoroughly investigated [8][9][10], but such multi-nature behavior of both Schottky junction and ohmic contact has not been reported. In

• second band structure whose Efb lies near the redox potential of the iron complex on the TiO2 surface. The photocurrents increased with repeated scans. In a previous paper [14] by one of the present authors (MK), both Schottky junction and ohmic contact behavior were found at a single crystal CdS