Photodecomposition of Semiconductors – A Thermodynamic Approach. A 
Citation-Classic Commentary on the Stability of semiconductor electrodes 
against photodecomposition

Gerischer, Heinz

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Photodecomposition of Semiconductors – A Thermodynamic Approach. A Citation-Classic Commentary on the Stability of semiconductor electrodes against photodecomposition

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Gerischer, Heinz
Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Gerischer, H. (1991). Photodecomposition of Semiconductors – A Thermodynamic Approach. A Citation-Classic Commentary on the Stability of semiconductor electrodes against photodecomposition. Current Contents, Physical Chemical & Earth Sciences, 31(20), 10-10.

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Abstract

It was in a solid-state physics seminar at the University of Stuttgart in 1956 that I heard a report of a paper from the Bell Telephone Laboratories (W.H. Brattain and C.G.B. Garrett, Experiments on the interface between germanium and an electrolyte. Bell Syst. Tech. J. 34, 129-176 (1955)) that described the very different behavior of p- and n-type germanium in contact with electrolytes under anodic and cathodic bias. I realized that a new type of electrochemical process occurred at such interfaces. …