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Dye-Sensitized Electrode, Photoanode

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Study of dye-sensitized semiconductor electrodes has started in the late 1960s as an extension of photographic science where silver halide grains are photosensitive materials to be spectrally sensitized. Dye molecules adsorbed on the surface of silver halide crystals and photoexcited by absorption of visible light act as electron donors to silver halide and spectrally sensitize the formation of silver image. Gerischer and co-workers explored various semiconductors of metal oxides and inorganic compounds which can be sensitized with organic dyes in the structure of electrochemical cell [1, 2]. As the result of sensitization, n-type semiconductors such as ZnO, TiO2, and CdS generate anodic photocurrents, and p-type semiconductors such as GaP generate cathodic photocurrents with their action spectra following the absorption spectra of the sensitizing dyes. The dye-sensitized photocurrent is generally larger in density and efficiency in the n-type sensitization than the...

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Toin University of Yokohama, 1614 Kurogane-cho, Aoba, 225-8503, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Tsutomu Miyasaka

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  2. Yokohama National University, Fac. Engineering, Yokohama, Japan

    Ken-ichiro Ota

  3. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Robert F. Savinell

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Miyasaka, T. (2014). Dye-Sensitized Electrode, Photoanode. In: Kreysa, G., Ota, Ki., Savinell, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6996-5_493

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