Elucidation of photovoltage origin and charge transport in Cu2O heterojunctions for solar energy conversion

Easy (green) and difficult (red) electron thermionic transport over heterointerfaces determines the photovoltage of TiO2/Ga2O3/Cu2O and TiO2/ZnO/Cu2O heterojunctions for solar energy conversion.

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