Injection Kinetics and Electronic Structure at the N719/TiO2 Interface Studied by Means of Ultrafast XUV Photoemission Spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 9099-9107

  Borgwardt, Mario ^a   Wilke, Martin ^a   Kampen, Thorsten ^b   Mähl, Sven ^b   Xiang, Wanchun ^c,d   Spiccia, Leone ^c   Lange, Kathrin M ^a   Kiyan, Igor Yu ^a   Aziz, Emad F ^a,e  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b SPECS SURFACE NANO ANALYSIS GMBH   (Germany)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Wuhan University of Technology   (China)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONDUCTION BANDS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXCITED STATES; KINETICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CONDUCTION-BAND MINIMUM; HETEROGENEOUS ELECTRON TRANSFER; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; METAL TO LIGAND CHARGE TRANSFERS; SINGLET AND TRIPLET STATE; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION; TRANSIENT EMISSIONS; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84928814541     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01216     Document Type: Article

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