[...]... photoelectrochemistry, and the fundamentals of both disciplines are covered in this volume Their applications to photoelectrolysis and other solar fuel-forming or waste-destroying photochemical and photoelectrochemical processes will form the main subject matter of the fourth and final volume in this book series To satisfy the global need for carbon-free energy, the fields of photovoltaics and photoelectrochemistry... Anghel, Carol Burling, Barrie Clark and Stuart Honan for their editorial assistance, David Ginley, John Kelly and Reshef Tenne for providing information, James Bolton for his early input into some of the material in Chapters 1 and 4, the staff of World Scientific Press who expertly drew many of the diagrams, and Lenore Betts, Lizzie Bennett and Katie Lydon of IC Press for guiding us along the winding... citadels on high Her imperial standards fly, Let the hot sun Shine on, shine on W H Auden, Twelve Songs, 1935–1938 1.1 Themes The major themes of this book are announced by its title: nanostructured and photoelectrochemical systems for solar energy conversion It deals mainly with the direct, i.e non-thermal, conversion of solar photonic energy into electrical power by photoelectrochemical or advanced... space-quantised structures and devices Other themes are the fundamentals of electron transfer and photoinduced electron transfer in supramolecular assemblies, photocatalytic reactions at semiconductor dispersions, and experimental techniques for the characterisation of semiconductor photoelectrochemical systems Semiconductors have been the electrode materials of choice for solar photon conversion for nearly thirty... Figure 1.4 Band structure in an ETA cell, showing the majority-carrier quasi-Fermi levels EF,n and EF,p in the electron and hole conductor, respectively, and the photovoltage V The conduction-band edge of the absorber must be above that of the electron conductor, while the valence-band edge of the absorber must be below that of the hole conductor The conduction-band and valence-band offsets ∆Ec and ∆Ev... power-producing photoelectrochemical and nanostructured cells:  regenerative solar cells (RSC): 1 Heller (1981); 2 Gibbons et al (1984): 3 Tufts et al (1987); 4 Licht and Peramunage (1990); 5 Licht et al (1998); 6 Licht et al (1999); • photoelectrochemical cells with storage (PECS): 1 Ang and Sammells (1980); 2 Keita and Nadjao (1984); 3 Licht et al (1987); 4 Licht et al (1999); — liquid dye-sensitised solar. .. conducted in this area It is worrying that global funding streams for research to develop advanced solar photon conversion technologies remain fragile despite the concerted and powerful case for a ‘Manhattan project’ effort to do so made by the international scientific community during a special conference in 2005 on basic research needs for solar energy utilisation promoted by the US Department of Energy’s... semiconductor photoelectrochemistry and nanostructured photovoltaic devices in Section 1.2, and then Sections 1.3–1.6 provide a brief introduction to the major cell types discussed in the remainder of the book: the ETA (extremely thin absorber) cell, organic and hybrid cells, dye-sensitised solar cells (Grätzel cells) and regenerative solar cells In Chapter 2, Miller and Memming present an advanced treatment... power Figure 1.2 shows how the performance of all these cell types has improved over time Finally, Xin Ai and Tianquan Lian deal with the measurement of electron-transfer dynamics at the molecule/semiconductor interface in Chapter 11, and Laurie Peter and Helmut Tributsch cover techniques for the characterisation of photoelectrochemical systems in Chapter 12 One type of photoelectrochemical device not... relaxation and solvation at interfaces and in nanomaterials Stuart Licht has over 250 publications in renewable energy chemistry, physical chemistry and analytical chemistry, and was the recipient of the 2006 Electrochemical Energy Research Award He has developed theory and experiment for the highly efficient solar generation of hydrogen fuel, introduced the contemporary use of caesium to enhance solar . written permission from the Publisher. Copyright © 2008 by Imperial College Press Series on Photoconversion of Solar Energy — Vol. 3 NANOSTRUCTURED AND PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS FOR SOLAR PHOTON. Systems for Solar Photon Conversion eds. Mary D. Archer & Arthur J. Nozik Forthcoming From Solar Photons to Electrons and Molecules by Mary D. Archer Wanda - Nonostructured & Photoelectrochemical. pmd. using an n-TiO 2 photoanode and a p- GaP photocathode, and also the photoreduction of dinitrogen on p- GaP. He also developed the ‘photochemical diode’, the forerunner of today’s particulate semiconductor