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7742 J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 7742–7749 Efficient Photoinduced Charge Injection from Chemical Bath Deposited CdS into Mesoporous TiO2 Probed with Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity Jorge Piris,† Andrew J. Ferguson, Jeff L. Blackburn, Andrew G. Norman, Garry Rumbles, Don C. Selmarten, and Nikos Kopidakis* National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boule Vard, Golden, Colorado 80401 Recei Ved: January 18, 2008; ReVised Manuscript ReceiVed: March 5, 2008 We use the contactless time-resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) technique to investigate the pho- toconductance of CdS-coated mesoporous TiO and ZrO . The CdS domains were grown directly on the 2 2 surface of the oxide by a chemical bath deposition method. Mobile charge carriers are generated with a low yield following photoexcitation of CdS grown on ZrO ; there is no injection into the oxide and the short- 2 lived photoconductance signal is attributed to the hole in CdS. In contrast, illumination of CdS domains grown on TiO2 results in very efficient electron injection into the TiO2 nanoparticles, producing long-lived charge carriers. We show that the quantum yield for electron injection into TiO2 per photon absorbed by the CdS sensitizer is close to unity. The photoconductance action spectrum follows the absorption of the CdS domains, which indicates that the charge injection efficiency does not depend on wavelength in the range