Tunable morphology and band gap alteration of CuO-ZnO nanostructures based photocathode for solar photoelectrochemical cells

• Main Authors: A Albadarin, Nusayba, Takrif, Mohd Sobri, Tan, Sin Tee, Shahahmadi, Seyed Ahmad, Jeffery Minggu, Lorna, Kadhum, Abdul Amir Hassan, Yin, Wong Wai, Salehmin, Mohd Nur Ikhmal, M Alkhalqi, Ensaf, Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Azmi, Amin, Nowshad
• Format: Article
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2020
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/86405/; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1591/abd1e6

A homogeneous CuO-ZnO nanostructure with tunable morphology and optical band structure is successfully synthesized via a hydrothermal method under the different dopant mole ratios of Cu. The robust correlation between the crystallite size, surface morphology, optical band gap alteration of the synth...