Abstract
High-efficiency hydrogen production through photoelectrochemical(PEC)water splitting has emerged as a promising solution to address current global energy challenges.Ⅲ-nitride semiconductor photoelec-trodes with nanostructures have demonstrated great potential in the near future due to their high light absorption,tunable direct band gap,and strong physicochemical stability.However,several issues,includ-ing surface trapping centers,surface Fermi level pinning,and surface band bending,need to be addressed.In this work,enhanced photovoltaic properties have been achieved using gallium nitride(GaN)nanowires(NWs)photoelectrodes by adopting an alkaline solution surface treatment method to reduce the surface states.It was found that surface oxides on NWs can be removed by an alkaline solution treatment with-out changing the surface morphology through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS),scanning electron microscopy(SEM)and other characterization methods.These findings provide new insights to the devel-opment of high-efficiency photoelectrodes for new energy source applications.
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