How UV light lowers the conductivity of SrTiO<sub>3</sub> by photochemical water splitting at elevated temperature
Alexander Viernstein, Markus Kubicek, Maximilian Morgenbesser, Tobias Huber, Matthäus Siebenhofer, Jürgen Fleig
Abstract
, oxygen incorporation upon UV and thus an increase of the oxygen chemical potential leads to a decrease of the majority electronic charge carrier, here electrons, which lowers the conductivity under UV irradiation.
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