Abstract
Photochemical activity of a semiconductor substance depends on a variety of different properties, including the spectral sensitivity range, band gap E g, positions (potentials) of the conduction band E CB and valence band E VB, mobility of photogenerated charge carriers and density of donor and acceptor states, surface morphology, adsorption capability, etc. Only a limited number of the reported semiconductors has a “complete” set of characteristics necessary for the photocatalytic action, mostly from the AIVBVI and AIIBVI groups. The photochemical activity was broadly reported for metal oxides (mostly TiO2, ZnO and rarely—WO3, Fe2O3, SnO2, Bi2O3, etc.), metal chalcogenides (most frequently—CdS, CdxZn1−xS, ZnS and rarely—CdSe, CdTe, In2S3, HgS, MoS2, etc.), and salts of metal based acids—metallates (for example, Na2Ti2O7, NaTaO3, SrTiO3, etc.). The photochemical activity of other semiconductors is reported much scarcely.
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Stroyuk, O. (2018). Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Photo-Active Semiconductors. In: Solar Light Harvesting with Nanocrystalline Semiconductors. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 99. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68879-4_5
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