Solar Energy Conversion: A Photoelectrochemical Approach

By Yuri V. Pleskov and Prem K. Dang Yuri V. Pleskov

In the past 12-15 years an essentially new trend in electrochemistry has sprung up around the problem of solar energy conversion. Strictly speaking, this is not a purely electrochemical but an interdisciplinary field involving the fields of cataly- sis, corrosion, chemistry of disperse systems, and others. Nevertheless, electro- chemistry, to be more exact, photoelectrochemistry of semiconductors, provides a theoretical basis for new methods of converting light energy into electrical or chemical energy, which, we hope, shall find practical application in the not so dis- tant future. In the past years, this field has been discussed amply and at length in special monographs (e. g., in Ref. [l]). Therefore, in this book the photoelectro- chemistry of semiconductors is presented in a concise form (exceptions are only specific problems which have been elucidated incorrectly or have not been covered completely in the literature). In this compact monograph we have aban- doned the principle of "self-seclusion" for a more deep insight into the funda- mentals of electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, and physics of semiconduc- tors the reader shall have to refer to the below-cited manuals, while information on the physicochemical properties of particular semiconductor electrodes can be taken, e. g., from Refs. [2, 3].

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642749607
• ISBN13: 9783642749605
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"