The Study of Near-Band-Edge Property in Oxygen-Incorporated
ZnS for Acting as an Efficient Crystal Photocatalyst
Posted on 2018-06-13 - 12:56
A wide gap semiconductor material
has attracted attention as a
heterophotocatalyst because of its light harvesting nature to be used
in alternative energy production for the next generation. We, herein,
grow and synthesize ZnS(1–x)Ox series compounds using the chemical vapor
transport (CVT) method with I2 serving as the transport
agent. Different crystals, such as undoped ZnS and oxygen-doped ZnS0.94O0.06 and ZnS0.88O0.12, revealed different bright palette emissions that were presented
in photoluminescence spectra in our previous report. To study the
electron–hole pair interaction of this sample series, the near-band-edge
transitions of the sample series were characterized in detail by photoconductivity
(PC) experiments. Additional results from surface photovoltage (SPV)
spectra also detected the surface and defect-edge transitions from
the higher oxygen-doped ZnS crystals. PC measurement results showed
a red-shift in the bandgap with increasing incorporation of oxygen
on ZnS. Consequently, the samples were subjected to photoirradiation
by xenon lamp for the degradation of methylene blue (MNB) by acting
as heterophotocatalysts. Undoped ZnS emerged as the best photocatalyst
candidate with the fastest rate constant value of 0.0277 min–1. In cubic {111} ZnS [{111} c-ZnS], the polarized Zn+ →
S– ions may play a vital role as a photocatalyst
because of their strong electron–hole polarization, which leads
to the mechanism for degradation of the MNB solution.
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Lin, Min-Han; Parasuraman, Perumalswamy Sekar; Ho, Ching-Hwa (2018). The Study of Near-Band-Edge Property in Oxygen-Incorporated
ZnS for Acting as an Efficient Crystal Photocatalyst. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b00260
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Min-Han Lin
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Perumalswamy Sekar Parasuraman
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Ching-Hwa Ho