Charge-transfer excitations in low-gap systems under the influence of solvation and conformational disorder: Exploring range-separation tuning

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  De Queiroz, Thiago B ^a   Kümmel, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; OLIGOMERS; SEPARATION; THIOPHENE;

CHARGE-TRANSFER EXCITATIONS; CONFORMATIONAL DISORDERS; CONTINUUM SOLVATION MODELS; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION; SEPARATION PARAMETERS; SHORT-RANGE EXCHANGE; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

SOLVATION;

EID: 84906878023     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892937     Document Type: Article

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