On the pathway of photoexcited electrons: probing photon-to-electron and photon-to-phonon conversions in silicon by ATR-IR

2012-01-01
KARABUDAK, Engin
Yüce, Emre
SCHLAUTMANN, Stefan
Hansen, Ole
Mul, Guido
Gardeniers, Han (J. G. E.)
Photoexcitation and charge carrier thermalization inside semiconductor photocatalysts are two important steps in solar fuel production. Here, photoexcitation and charge carrier thermalization in a silicon wafer are for the first time probed by a novel, yet simple and user-friendly Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared spectroscopy (ATR-IR) system.
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Citation Formats
E. KARABUDAK, E. Yüce, S. SCHLAUTMANN, O. Hansen, G. Mul, and H. (. G. E. ). Gardeniers, “On the pathway of photoexcited electrons: probing photon-to-electron and photon-to-phonon conversions in silicon by ATR-IR,” PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, pp. 10882–10885, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35917.