Metal-oxide semiconductors molded into photonic structures are highly promising for photocatalysis, thanks to their unique property of slowing down light, thereby improving light harvesting. However, this ‘slow light’ is limited to specific frequencies in a narrow spectral region. To address this, we fabricated bilayer-bimodal inverse opal (IO) TiO2-BiVO4 photonic structures that generated slow photons at multiple spectral regions. We tuned their frequencies by lattice parameter and light incidence-angle variations and achieved an 8-fold and a 2-fold increase in photocatalytic efficiency compared to non-structured and monolayer counterparts respectively. The strategies presented here can be extended to all solar energy conversion applications.
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