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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
卷 115, 期 42, 页码 20795-20805出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp206991v
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- Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0002120]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0002120] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Hematite is a candidate for use as a photoanode in water-splitting reaction's. Part of the efficiency depends on the capability of hematite to absorb: sunlight and convert solar energy to electron While there have been optical spectroscopy measurements as well as molecular orbital studies on the optical spectra of hematite, accurate characterizations. of excited States from theory are missing. To fill gap, we study excited states of electrostatically embedded hematite clusters using complete active space self-consistent field theory and complete active: space with second-order perturbation theory. Overall, we found that the lowest lying excitations within hematite are Fe d-d ligand field transitions (starting at similar to 2.5 eV), which are highly localized around Fe centers. The O 2p to Fe 3d ligand to metal charge transfer excitations are higher lying excited states (similar to 6 eV). These excitation energies are used to verify some of the earlier peak assignments for the optical spectra of hematite. In addition, we demonstrate hat density functional theory energy differences between different spin states of Fe in the embedded FeO69- cluster are significantly biased by the choice of exchange-correlation functional. Therefore, any conclusions derived from those types of calculations should be viewed with caution.
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