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International Journal of Photoenergy
Volume 2014, Article ID 643532, 3 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/643532
Research Article

Sensitization of Perovskite Strontium Stannate SrSnO3 towards Visible-Light Absorption by Doping

Hungru Chen1 and Naoto Umezawa1,2,3

1Environmental Remediation Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Sciences, Ibaraki Prefecture 305-0044, Japan
2PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture 332-0012, Japan
3TU-NIMS Joint Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, China

Received 26 June 2014; Accepted 3 August 2014; Published 18 August 2014

Academic Editor: Wenjun Luo

Copyright © 2014 Hungru Chen and Naoto Umezawa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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