Coupled photovoltaic junction-metal dissolution elements under mass and light flux variation.
01 January 1985
Our object is to describe the kinetics of semiconductor-based photoelectrochemical cells in terms of rigorously specified light and mass transport fluxes. In general, choosing the latter two experimentally controllable variables practical tests. The theory treats the total voltage applied across the semiconductor/solution interface as the sum of the voltage drop across the semiconductor and the potential associated with the electrochemical process. In particular, choosing the individually well-understood pair of elements (p-n Si, Hg dissolution) has allowed us here to test two aspects of the theory.