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Phys Chem Chem Phys
; 25(17): 11981-11985, 2023 May 03.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37070281
RESUMO
We developed a new spectroscopic technique, which is named the charge carrier-selective heterodyne transient grating (CS-HD-TG) method, for the distinction of surface trap states existing in photocatalysts and photovoltaic materials by employing a burn laser inducing depletion of the number of surface trapped charge carriers. In addition, as a case study, we measured the heterodyne transient grating responses of hematite under bias conditions with and without the burn laser and revealed that two distinct trap states co-exist at the surface of the hematite film and only one of them could act as the reaction intermediate for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is consistent with former studies.