scholarly journals Pulsed Laser Deposition of Bismuth Vanadate Thin Films—The Effect of Oxygen Pressure on the Morphology, Composition, and Photoelectrochemical Performance

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1360
Author(s):  
Konrad Trzciński ◽  
Mariusz Szkoda ◽  
Maria Gazda ◽  
Jakub Karczewski ◽  
Adam Cenian ◽  
...  

Thin layers of bismuth vanadate were deposited using the pulsed laser deposition technique on commercially available FTO (fluorine-doped tin oxide) substrates. Films were sputtered from a sintered, monoclinic BiVO4 pellet, acting as the target, under various oxygen pressures (from 0.1 to 2 mbar), while the laser beam was perpendicular to the target surface and parallel to the FTO substrate. The oxygen pressure strongly affects the morphology and the composition of films observed as a Bi:V ratio gradient along the layer deposited on the substrate. Despite BiVO4, two other phases were detected using XRD (X-ray diffraction) and Raman spectroscopy—V2O5 and Bi4V2O11. The V-rich region of the samples deposited under low and intermediate oxygen pressures was covered by V2O5 longitudinal structures protruding from BiVO4 film. Higher oxygen pressure leads to the formation of Bi4V2O11@BiVO4 bulk heterojunction. The presented results suggest that the ablation of the target leads to the plasma formation, where Bi and V containing ions can be spatially separated due to the interactions with oxygen molecules. In order to study the phenomenon more thoroughly, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy measurements were performed. Then, obtained electrodes were used as photoanodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting. The highest photocurrent was achieved for films deposited under 1 mbar O2 pressure and reached 1 mA cm−2 at about 0.8 V vs Ag/AgCl (3 M KCl). It was shown that V2O5 on the top of BiVO4 decreases its photoactivity, while the presence of a bulk Bi4V2O11@BiVO4 heterojunction is beneficial in water photooxidation.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doina Craciun ◽  
Valentin Craciun ◽  
C. Martin ◽  
Ion N. Mihailescu ◽  
M. C. Bunescu ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2249-2265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne M. McGraw ◽  
John D. Perkins ◽  
Falah Hasoon ◽  
Philip A. Parilla ◽  
Chollada Warmsingh ◽  
...  

We have found that by varying only the substrate temperature and oxygen pressure five different crystallographic orientations of V2O5 thin films can be grown, ranging from amorphous to highly textured crystalline. Dense, phase-pure V2O5 thin films were grown on SnO2/glass substrates and amorphous quartz substrates by pulsed laser deposition over a wide range of temperatures and oxygen pressures. The films' microstructure, crystallinity, and texturing were characterized by electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and Raman spectroscopy. Temperature and oxygen pressure appeared to play more significant roles in the resulting crystallographic texture than did the choice of substrate. A growth map summarizes the results and delineates the temperature and O2 pressure window for growing dense, uniform, phase-pure V2O5 films.


2017 ◽  
Vol 727 ◽  
pp. 1273-1279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihui Yu ◽  
Binhui Zhu ◽  
Haoran Zheng ◽  
Lingxia Li ◽  
Siliang Chen ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 361 ◽  
Author(s):  
See-Hyung Lee ◽  
Tae W. Noh ◽  
Jai-Hyung Lee ◽  
Young-Gi Kim

ABSTRACTPulsed laser deposition was used to grow epitaxial LiNbO3 films on sapphire(0001) substrates with a single crystal LiNbO3 target. Using deposition temperatures below 450 °C, LiNbO3 films with correct stoichiometry could be grown without using Li-rich targets. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry measurements showed that the oxygen to niobium ratio is 3.00 ± 0.15 to 1.00. It was also found that the crystallographic orientations of the LiNbO3 films could be controlled by adjusting the oxygen pressure during deposition. An x-ray pole figure shows that epitaxial LiNbO3 films were grown on sapphire(0001), but with twin boundaries.


2003 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 594-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Yan ◽  
L. B. Kong ◽  
J. S. Pan ◽  
C. K. Ong

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (10) ◽  
pp. 13518-13522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Jiao ◽  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Zhihua Duan ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Yanxue Tang ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 479 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 12-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Heinrich ◽  
Bernd Renner ◽  
Robert Lux ◽  
Stefan G. Ebbinghaus ◽  
Armin Reller ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 3310-3313 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Craciun ◽  
D. Craciun ◽  
J. Perriere ◽  
I. W. Boyd

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