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Caban Acevedo, Miguel.

Enabling iron pyrite (FeS2) and related ternary pyrite compounds for high-performance solar energy applications.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Enabling iron pyrite (FeS2) and related ternary pyrite compounds for high-performance solar energy applications.
Author:	Caban Acevedo, Miguel.
Description:	276 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: B.
Notes:	Adviser: Song Jin.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04B(E).
Subject:	Inorganic chemistry.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3739252
ISBN:	9781339298092

Enabling iron pyrite (FeS2) and related ternary pyrite compounds for high-performance solar energy applications.
Caban Acevedo, Miguel.

Enabling iron pyrite (FeS2) and related ternary pyrite compounds for high-performance solar energy applications. - 276 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015.

The success of solar energy technologies depends not only on highly efficient solar-to-electrical energy conversion, charge storage or chemical fuel production, but also on dramatically reduced cost, to meet the future terawatt energy challenges we face. The enormous scale involved in the development of impactful solar energy technologies demand abundant and inexpensive materials, as well as energy-efficient and cost-effective processes. As a result, the investigation of semiconductor, catalyst and electrode materials made of earth-abundant and sustainable elements may prove to be of significant importance for the long-term adaptation of solar energy technologies on a larger scale. Among earth-abundant semiconductors, iron pyrite (cubic FeS2) has been considered the most promising solar energy absorber with the potential to achieve terawatt energy-scale deployment. Despite extensive synthetic progress and device efforts, the solar conversion efficiency of iron pyrite has remained below 3% since the 1990s, primarily due to a low open circuit voltage (V oc). The low photovoltage (Voc) of iron pyrite has puzzled scientists for decades and limited the development of cost-effective solar energy technologies based on this otherwise promising semiconductor. Here I report a comprehensive investigation of the syntheses and properties of iron pyrite materials, which reveals that the Voc of iron pyrite is limited by the ionization of a high density of intrinsic bulk defect states despite high density surface states and strong surface Fermi level pinning. Contrary to popular belief, bulk defects most-likely caused by intrinsic sulfur vacancies in iron pyrite must be controlled in order to enable this earth-abundant semiconductor for cost-effective and sustainable solar energy conversion. Lastly, the investigation of iron pyrite presented here lead to the discovery of ternary pyrite-type cobalt phosphosulfide (CoPS) as a highly-efficient earth-abundant catalyst material for electrochemical and solar energy driven hydrogen production.

ISBN: 9781339298092Subjects--Topical Terms:

708705
Inorganic chemistry.

Enabling iron pyrite (FeS2) and related ternary pyrite compounds for high-performance solar energy applications.
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