M. Mikula et al., Photoelectrochemical properties of TiOx layers prepared by DC pulsed unbalanced reactive magnetron sputtering, CZEC J PHYS, 49(3), 1999, pp. 393-403
Three sets of titanium oxide layers with different oxygen content were prep
ared by DC pulsed reactive magnetron sputtering. The layers were characteri
sed by their thickness, conductivity, refractive index, band-gap and flat b
and potential. The photoelectric and photocatalytic activities of the layer
s irradiated by Xe discharge lamp were tested in NaOH and phenol water solu
tion, respectively. Rather high activity of prepared layers was found; no e
xpressive activity increase was, however, observed in contrary to the expec
tation connected with suboxide forms of TiOx.