Fu-Qiang Zhang

TL;DR: The facile fabrication of three-dimensional silicon/hematite core/shell nanowire arrays decorated with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and their potential application for sunlight-driven solar water splitting are reported.

TL;DR: Compared to MCEE commonly performed in aqueous HF solution, the present pseudo gas phase etching offers exceptional simplicity, flexibility, environmental friendliness, and scalability for the fabrication of three-dimensional silicon nanostructures with considerable depths.

TL;DR: Without any assistance from an external electrical source and sacrificial reagents, gold-sensitized n-Si/n-ZnO core/shell nanowire array photoanode achieved unbiased water splitting under simulated solar light illumination and opens a promising venue to cost-efficient production of solar fuels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the plasmon enhanced broadband light absorption and electrical properties of silicon nanobowl (SiNB) arrays were studied, and the SiNB-metal photonic-plasmonic nanostructure-based devices exhibited superior light-harvesting ability across a wide range of wavelengths up to the infrared regime well below the band edge of Si.

TL;DR: These findings indicate that the randomly arranged silicon nanorocket (SiNR) arrays fabricated by the simple self-assembly and etching approach can have a significant impact on performance improvement in thin film silicon solar cells.