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Probing with Light—Optical Methods in Studies of Nanocrystalline Semiconductors

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Solar Light Harvesting with Nanocrystalline Semiconductors

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The studies of photochemical and photocatalytic processes involving the semiconductor NPs are performed using a broad range of modern physical and chemical methods applied to determine the NP size and structure, their spectral, photophysical and other properties. The most frequently used are electron spectroscopy in the absorption, transmission and reflection modes, photoluminescence spectroscopy, electron microscopy (in the scanning and transmission modes), X-rays diffraction, etc. Nuances of the photochemical properties of semiconductor NPs can be revealed using the lamp and laser flash photolysis, the electron paramagnetic resonance and the Raman spectroscopy. The voltammetry is often used to determine the potentials of conduction and valence bands of semiconductor NPs, the adsorption/desorption methods—for the determination of the specific surface are and pore size of semiconductor nanophotocatalysts. A detailed description of these methods is far beyond the scope of the present book. This chapter is confined to the methods using light to probe the properties of nanocrystalline semiconductors and thus shedding light on the structure and properties of these fascinating objects as a result of their interaction with the probing irradiation.

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Stroyuk, O. (2018). Probing with Light—Optical Methods in Studies of Nanocrystalline 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_6

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