Atomic-scale perspective of ultrafast charge transfer at a dye-semiconductor interface

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2753-2759

  Siefermann, Katrin R ^a,g   Pemmaraju, Chaitanya D ^a   Neppl, Stefan ^a   Shavorskiy, Andrey ^a   Cordones, Amy A ^a,b   Vura Weis, Josh ^b,h   Slaughter, Daniel S ^a   Sturm, Felix P ^a   Weise, Fabian ^a,i   Bluhm, Hendrik ^a   Strader, Matthew L ^a,c,j,k   Cho, Hana ^a   Lin, Ming Fu ^a,b,h   Bacellar, Camila ^a,b   Khurmi, Champak ^a   Guo, Jinghua ^a   Coslovich, Giacomo ^a   Robinson, Joseph S ^a,c   Kaindl, Robert A ^a   Schoenlein, Robert W ^a   Belkacem, Ali ^a   Neumark, Daniel M ^a,b   Leone, Stephen R ^a,b   Nordlund, Dennis ^c   Ogasawara, Hirohito ^c   Krupin, Oleg ^c,d   Turner, Joshua J ^c   Schlotter, William F ^c   Holmes, Michael R ^c   Messerschmidt, Marc ^c   Minitti, Michael P ^c   Gul, Sheraz ^a,e   Zhang, Jin Z ^e   Huse, Nils ^f   Prendergast, David ^a   Gessner, Oliver ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

ⁱ Berliner Glas KGaA   (Germany)

^j GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

constrained density functional theory; dye sensitized solar cells; interfacial charge transfer; photocatalysis; time resolved X ray photoelectron spectroscopy; X ray free electron laser

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BINDING ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOEXCITATION; SOLAR CELLS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; CORE-LEVEL PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; TIME-RESOLVED; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

CHARGE TRANSFER;

EID: 84905750503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501264x     Document Type: Article

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