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arXiv 2202.01073cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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半导体中光化学各向异性和方向相关的光吸收

Photochemical Anisotropy and Direction-dependent Optical Absorption in Semiconductors

Chiara Ricca, Ulrich Aschauer

摘要:

半导体上的光化学反应是各向异性的,因为它们在不同取向的表面上以不同的速率发生。了解这种各向异性的起源对于设计更有效的光催化剂至关重要。在这项工作中,我们使用混合密度泛函理论(DFT),以确定与最大数量的光生载流子在不同的半导体表面。对于每种材料,我们创建了一个球形热图的光学跃迁的概率在不同的波矢量。这些地图允许识别与大多数光生载流子相关的方向,因此可以用于预测光化学应用中最具反应性的表面。结果表明,通常可以将热图与在常规能带结构图中观察到的能带的各向异性相关联,如前所述。然而,我们也表明,传统的能带结构图并不总是提供所有的信息,并考虑到所有可能的过渡加权其跃迁偶极矩的贡献是至关重要的,以获得一个完整的图片。

英文摘要:

Photochemical reactions on semiconductors are anisotropic, since they occur with different rates on surfaces of different orientation. Understanding the origin of this anisotropy is crucial to engineering more efficient photocatalysts. In this work, we use hybrid density functional theory (DFT) to identify the surfaces associated with the largest number of photo-generated carriers in different semiconductors. For each material we create a spherical heat map of the probability of optical transitions at different wave vectors. These maps allow to identify the directions associated with the majority of the photo-generated carriers and can thus be used to make predictions about the most reactive surfaces for photochemical applications. Results indicate that it is generally possible to correlate the heat maps with the anisotropy of the bands observed in conventional band-structure plots, as previously suggested. However, we also demonstrate that conventional bands-structure plots do not always provide all the informations and that taking into account the contribution of all possible transitions weighted by their transition dipole moments is crucial to obtain a complete picture.

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