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Armeen Hussain1, Kayla Mancini1, Yousef Khatib1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 07043 USA. oneilg@montclair.edu.
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Abstract:
Here, we characterize the photovoltage of n-Si/Au light-addressable electrodes (LAEs) over a range of solution potentials from ca. -1 to +1 V. We find that the n-Si/Au photoelectrodes show photovoltages consistent with a semiconductor/liquid junction in contrast to a buried junction, which opposes our previous understanding of how photovoltage originates in these sensors.

