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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 142, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4918588
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- academic research fund of MOE Singapore
- NUS [R144-000-325-112, R144-000-344-112]
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Time dependent density functional tight binding (TDDFTB) method is implemented with sparse matrix techniques and improved parallelization algorithms. The method is employed to calculate the optical properties of various Si nanocrystals (NCs). The calculated light absorption spectra of small Si NCs from TDDFTB were found to be comparable with many body perturbation methods utilizing planewave basis sets. For large Si NCs (more than a thousand atoms) that are beyond the reach of conventional approaches, the TDDFTB method is able to produce reasonable results that are consistent with prior experiments. We also employed the method to study the effects of surface chemistry on the optical properties of large Si NCs. We learned that the optical properties of Si NCs can be manipulated with small molecule passivations such as methyl, hydroxyl, amino, and fluorine. In general, the shifts and profiles in the absorption spectra can be tuned with suitably chosen passivants. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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