Here we report the WO3 thin films on F-doped SnO2 conducting glass (FTO) substrates which were prepared by using dip film-drawing method. Dip film-drawing was a simple, convenient, economical method and in largescale ...Here we report the WO3 thin films on F-doped SnO2 conducting glass (FTO) substrates which were prepared by using dip film-drawing method. Dip film-drawing was a simple, convenient, economical method and in largescale to prepare photoanodes for future applications. The FTO substrates were dipped in tungstic acid solution then film-drawn included 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 times for prepared different thicknesses of WO3 thin film photoanodes. Then the photoa no des were employed as the electrodes in photoelectrochemical property Keywords: WO3 thin films Dip film-drawing Photoelectrochemical Thicknesses Large-scale measurements, which include scan linear sweep, repeated on/off illumination cycles, electrochemical impedanee spectroscopy and incident phot on to current conversion efficiency, respectively. The results showed that the WO3 thin films dipped 9 times with 175 nm thicknesses had the best photoelectrochemical performance of 0.067 mA·cm^-2 at 1.23 V versus RHE.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21522603,21477050,21401082,21503142,21671083)Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province(XCL-025)+2 种基金and the Chinese-German Cooperation Research Project(GZ1091)Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(KYCX17_1774)the Excellent Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Scientific Committee(BK20170526)
文摘Here we report the WO3 thin films on F-doped SnO2 conducting glass (FTO) substrates which were prepared by using dip film-drawing method. Dip film-drawing was a simple, convenient, economical method and in largescale to prepare photoanodes for future applications. The FTO substrates were dipped in tungstic acid solution then film-drawn included 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 times for prepared different thicknesses of WO3 thin film photoanodes. Then the photoa no des were employed as the electrodes in photoelectrochemical property Keywords: WO3 thin films Dip film-drawing Photoelectrochemical Thicknesses Large-scale measurements, which include scan linear sweep, repeated on/off illumination cycles, electrochemical impedanee spectroscopy and incident phot on to current conversion efficiency, respectively. The results showed that the WO3 thin films dipped 9 times with 175 nm thicknesses had the best photoelectrochemical performance of 0.067 mA·cm^-2 at 1.23 V versus RHE.