id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4f16c24993j Vaidyanathan Subramanian Photoelectorochemical and Photocatalytic Aspects of Semiconductor-Metal Nanocomposites 2004 .txt text/plain 355 17 22 Photoelectrochemical performance Deposition of metals on semiconductor films leads to increased light to energy conversion efficiency and demonstrates beneficial photoelectrochemical properties such as higher photocurrent and photovoltage compared to plain semiconductor. The presence of metal facilitates electron transfer from photoexcited semiconductor to the surroundings and decreases recombination rate between the electrons-holes in the semiconductor. cache/4f16c24993j.txt txt/4f16c24993j.txt