SOLAR INDUCED WATER SPLITTING WITH p/n HETEROTYPE PHOTOCHEMICAL DIODES: n-Fe203/p-GaP

LBL-12114 Preprint Submitted to Solar Energy Materials SOLAR INDUCED WATER SPLITTING WITH pjn HETEROTYPE PHOTOCHEMICAL DIODES: n-Fe 0 /p-GaP Howard Mettee, John W. Otvos, and Melvin Calvin January 1981 fi':NG .L. · t.ABORA'fCH ,. ' r .-u 1 ' 7 r 4 !981 TWO-WEEK LOAN COPY a Library Circulating Copy which may be borrowed for two weeks. For a personal retention copyy call This is Tech. Info. Divisiony Ext. 6782. Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract W-7405-ENG-48

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