Where Do Photogenerated Holes Go in Anatase:Rutile TiO2? A Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Charge Transfer and Lifetime

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 715-723

  Kafizas, Andreas ^a   Wang, Xiuli ^a,b   Pendlebury, Stephanie R ^a   Barnes, Piers ^a   Ling, Min ^c   Sotelo Vazquez, Carlos ^c   Quesada Cabrera, Raul ^c   Li, Can ^b   Parkin, Ivan P ^c   Durrant, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CARRIER LIFETIME; CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OXIDE MINERALS;

PHASE COMPOSITES; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE; PHOTOGENERATED HOLES; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; SUB-MICROSECOND; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84958173579     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b11567     Document Type: Article

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