Tailoring electronic and optical properties of TiO2: Nanostructuring, doping and molecular-oxide interactions

Computational Studies of New Materials II: From Ultrafast Processes and Nanostructures to Optoelectronics, Energy Storage and Nanomedicine

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 301-330

  Chiodo, Letizia ^a   García Lastra, Juan Maria ^a   Mowbray, Duncan John ^a   Rubio, Angel ^b   Iacomino, Amilcare ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Universidad del Pa ýs Vasco   (Spain)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; D REGION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES;

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; MANY BODY PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; UNIFIED DESCRIPTION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84952942597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789814287197_0012     Document Type: Chapter

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