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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 28, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/7/074004
关键词
TiO2; exciton; excess electron; continuum model
资金
- EPSRC
- ERC
The modelling of an excess electron in a semiconductor in a prototypical dye sensitised solar cell is carried out using two complementary approaches: atomistic simulation of the TiO2 nanoparticle surface is complemented by a dielectric continuum model of the solventsemiconductor interface. The two methods are employed to characterise the bound (excitonic) states formed by the interaction of the electron in the semiconductor with a positive charge opposite the interface. Density-functional theory (DFT) calculations show that the excess electron in TiO2 in the presence of a counterion is not fully localised but extends laterally over a large region, larger than system sizes accessible to DFT calculations. The numerical description of the excess electron at the semiconductor-electrolyte interface based on the continuum model shows that the exciton is also delocalised over a large area: the exciton radius can have values from tens to hundreds of angstrom ngstroms, depending on the nature of the semiconductor (characterised by the dielectric constant and the electron effective mass in our model).
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