UV Light Activated Multi-Cycle Photoelectric Properties of TiO₂ and CdS/TiO ₂ Films in Formaldehyde.

Abstract

In this work, UV light activated multi-cycle photoelectric properties of TiO₂ and CdS/TiO₂ films in formaldehyde were researched. TiO₂ film was prepared by screen printing, CdS/TiO₂ compounded film was synthesized by SILAR method. XRD and FE-SEM was used to characterize the TiO₂ and CdS/TiO₂ samples. Multi-cycle photoelectric properties of TiO₂ and CdS/TiO₂ with uv light on and off were evaluated by testing the photocurrent. On one hand, under the same bias voltage, CdS/TiO ₂showed a higher photocurrent than that by TiO₂. The reason for this result should be ascribed to the compounded structure in CdS/TiO₂, with which the separation and transfer of photogenerated electron-hole pairs could be improved. On the other hand, with the testing cycle number increased, the photocurrent amplitudes of TiO₂ and CdS/TiO₂ increased. These results suggested that the time to reach a stable photocurrent value for TiO₂ and CdS/TiO₂ is much longer than one cycle time (300 S). To illustrate the increased photocurrent amplitude value cycle by cycle, the photocurrent of CdS/TiO₂ to a much longer time (more than 4000 seconds) was also tested. To explain these results, corresponding possible illustrations were presented.