Abstract
We have structurally, chemically and electronically characterized the most stable (010) surface of a Mo-doped BiVO4 single crystal. Low energy electron diffraction (LEED) reveals that the surface is not significantly reconstructed from a bulk termination of the crystal. Synchrotron based X-ray spectroscopies indicate no surface enhancement of any of the crystal constituents and that the Mo dopant occupies tetrahedral sites by substituting for V at the surface. Using resonant photoemission to study the valence band structure as the V L3 edge is scanned we observe an intraband gap state associated with reduced vanadium formed by the Mo doping. This state is likely associated with small polaron formation. This feature is enhanced at a photon energy that is not resonant with any of the main features in the absorption spectrum of the pristine BiVO4. This indicates that the additional electron from Mo doping likely induces further distortion of the VO4 tetrahedral units and generates a new conduction band state...
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