Optical absorption spectra of gold clusters Au n (n 4, 6, 8,12, 20) from long-range corrected functionals with optimal tuning

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Koppen, Jessica V ^a   Hapka, Micha ^b   Szcześniak, Magorzata M ^a   Chaasiski, Grzegorz ^a,b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MAXIMA; CLUSTER SIZES; COUPLED-CLUSTER SINGLES AND DOUBLES; ELECTRON NUMBER; EXACT EXCHANGE; FUNCTIONALS; GOLD CLUSTERS; HOMO-LUMO GAPS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; LONG-RANGE CORRECTIONS; OPTICAL GAP; OPTICAL SPECTRA; OPTIMAL TUNING; OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS; SEPARATION PARAMETERS; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TRANSITION ENERGY; UV SPECTRUM;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CAMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GOLD; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84866893066     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4752433     Document Type: Article

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