Geometries,spectra and photoelectric properties of trifluorenylamine-based photoactive layer

The ground-state geometries, electronic structures, spectra and photoelectric properties of two dyes (JA1 and JA2) used for dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) have been investigated with density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). For simulation of the realistic environment, we calculated the energy levels of molecular orbitals and absorption spectra in solvent, and the different electric fields have been considered. For interpreting the difference of photoelectric properties, we assessed the energy levels and energy gaps of frontier molecular orbitals, electron density, absorption, the total static first hyperpolarisability and driving force of electron injection. The relationship between structure and performance should be established. Furthermore, 24 dyes were designed on the basis of JA1 and JA2 to improve optical response and electron injection. The results of molecular modelling would provide the optional approach for improving performance of photoelectric materials.     

Theoretical study of electronic structure and excited states properties of two dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Two conjugated organic dyes comprising the benzo[b]furan moieties as the electron donor and cyanoacetic acid moieties as the electron acceptor/anchoring groups have been investigated using a quantum chemical method. The molecular equilibrium geometries and ground state character were studied using density functional theory. Absorption spectra were obtained using time-dependent density functional theory and semiempirical ZINDO. The nature of absorption spectra was further studied using 2D and 3D real-space analysis; here, 2D real-space analysis showed electron–hole coherence, and 3D real-space analysis showed intramolecular charge transfer during photo-excitation. As important parameters, excited state oxidation potential and driving force energy were obtained to reveal the relationship between molecular structure and performance of two compounds.     

Density Functional Theory Study on Organic Dye Sensitizers Containing Bis-dimethylfluorenyl Amino Benzofuran

运用密度泛函理论和含时密度泛函理论研究了两种含二-二甲基芴氨基苯并呋喃基团的有机染料敏化剂的几何结构、电子结构、极化率和超极化率以及紫外可见谱. 基于理论计算和实验结果的一致性指认了电子吸收谱的特征. 可见区的吸收带都与光诱导电荷转移过程有关,二甲基芴氨基苯并呋喃基团是在光电转换敏化中起主要作用的基团. 通过对两种染料敏化剂的比较,分析了亚乙烯基对几何结构、电子结构和光谱特性影响.     

Optical properties of dye sensitized TiO2 nanowires from time‐dependent density functional theory

We present a computational study based on time‐dependent density functional theory of the optical absorption spectra of TiO₂ nanowires sensitized with organic dye molecules. We concentrate on catechol and squaraine dyes. For those molecules, we compute adsorption geometries and energies and investigate the optical properties of the combined dye– nanowire system. We find that although the molecules have qualitatively different optical spectra in the gas phase, both lead to an enhancement of the absorption in the visible frequency range when adsorbed on a nanowire.

     

Theoretical study on the spectroscopic and third-order nonlinear optical properties of two-dimensional charge-transfer pyrazine derivatives

In this paper, density functional theory method was employed to study the electronic absorption spectrum and electronic static second hyperpolarisability of X-shaped pyrazine derivatives with two-dimensional charge-transfer structures. Computational results show that the push–pull electron abilities of the substituent groups and the length of the conjugated chains affect the electronic spectrum and static second hyperpolarisability of the pyrazine derivatives. As the push–pull electron abilities of the substituent groups or the length of the conjugated chains increases, the frontier molecular orbital energy gap decreases, resulting in increased second hyperpolarisability and redshift of the electronic absorption bands. The electronic absorption spectra of the pyrazine derivatives maintain good transparency in the blue light band. The electronic static second hyperpolarisability exhibits a linear relationship to the frontier molecular orbital energy gap. Particularly, increasing/decreasing the push–pull electron abilities of the substituent groups considerably affect the static second hyperpolarisability in long conjugated systems, which is important to the modulation of molecular organic nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. The studied pyrazine derivatives show large third-order NLO response and good transparency in the blue light band and are thus promising candidates as NLO materials for photonics applications.     

氧族元素对D-A和D-π-A共聚物光吸收谱红移的第一性原理研究

D-A型共聚物作为有机聚合物太阳能电池的电子给体材料近年来引起广泛关注. 本文以苯并二噻吩(BDT)为电子给体单元, 苯并噻二唑(BT)为电子受体单元来模拟D-A共聚体; 并用噻吩环作为π桥, 构造出D-π-A(PBDT-DTBX, X = O, S, Se, Te)结构. 采用第一性原理的密度泛函理论, 系统地计算相应的电子结构和光吸收谱. 比较不同氧族元素和噻吩π-键桥对聚合物光吸收谱的影响. 研究结果表明: D-A共聚体中当X位元素以O, S, Se, T_e 替换时, 其体系的最高占有分子轨道(HOMO)能级变化不大, 最低未占有分子轨道(LUMO)能级逐渐靠近费米能级, 带隙逐渐减小. 在可见光区有两个较强的吸收峰, 随着X位元素原子序数增大, 位于4.0 eV左右的光吸收峰位基本不变, 另一光吸收峰强度明显增大并发生红移. 与D-A结构相比, D-π-A结构的带隙均有所减小, 其中X为Te时带隙最小; 光吸收峰强度随着氧族元素原子序数的增大也明显增大并发生红移. 通过比较光吸收系数和相应态密度, 结果表明, 4.0 eV 左右的光吸收峰主要是BDT单元的贡献, 氧族元素的改变主要影响519.4-703.9 nm范围的光吸收.     

Theoretical studies of the structural,electronic and optical properties of carbazole‐based compounds

Carbazole derivatives have drawn increasing attention recently in organic electronic device applications because of their particular optoelectronic properties. An in‐depth theoretical investigation was elaborated in this paper to reveal the molecular structures, optoelectronic properties, and the structure‐property relationships of different carbazole‐linked functional groups. The geometric and electronic structures in ground and the mobility for the hole and electron are both calculated by density functional theory method. The excited‐state geometries of these compounds were obtained through Single‐excitation Configuration Interaction method, and time‐dependent density functional theory calculation results described the absorption and emission spectra properties, respectively. Some conclusions are as follows: (1) enlarging the π‐conjugated area, the corresponding spectra red shifted markedly; (2) by introducing the electron‐donor such as carbazole, the spectra blue shifted slightly; (3) compared with compound 1, the spectra for these compounds are hardly influenced by introducing an electron‐acceptor or heterocyclic substitution. On all accounts, these compounds are interesting optoelectronic functional materials. On the basis of their structural modifiability, the arylamine derivatives substituted carbazole compounds have great potential in the applications of organic light‐emitting diodes, organic solar cells, and sensors. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Encapsulation of small fullerenes into nitrogenated holey nanotubes: a density functional theory study

Encapsulation of fullerene into nanotubes based on a C₂N sheet, known as nitrogenated holey graphene, was investigated using density functional theory. The structural and electronic properties of these carbon hybrid materials, consisting of nitrogenated holey nanotubes and a small C₂₀ fullerene, were studied. The formation energies showed that encapsulation of the fullerene into the nitrogenated holey nanotube is an exothermic process. To characterise the electronic properties, the electronic band structure and density of states of armchair and zigzag nitrogenated holey nanotubes were calculated. Filling these nanotubes with the C₂₀ fullerene resulted in a p-type semiconducting character. The energy band gap of the nitrogenated holey nanotubes decreased with fullerene encapsulation. The results are indicative of the possibility of band gap engineering by encapsulation of small fullerenes into nitrogenated holey nanotubes.     

Modification on C217 by auxiliary acceptor toward efficient sensitiser for dye-sensitised solar cells: a theoretical study

In this work, to develop efficient organic dye sensitisers, a series of novel donor–acceptor–π–acceptor metal-free dyes were designed based on the C217 dye by means of modifying different auxiliary acceptors, and their photovoltaic performances were theoretically investigated with systematic density functional theory calculations coupled with the incoherent charge-hopping model. Results showed that the designed dyes possess lower highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) levels as well as narrower HOMO–LUMO gaps compared to C217, which indicate their higher light-harvesting efficiency. In addition, using the (TiO₂)₃₈ cluster and bidentate bridging model, we predicted that the photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE) for the C217 dye is as high as 9.92% under air mass (AM) 1.5 illumination (100 mW·cm^?2), which is in good agreement with its experimental value (9.60%–9.90%). More interestingly, the cell sensitised by the dye 7 designed in this work exhibits a middle-sized open-circuit voltage of 0.737 V, large short-circuit photocurrent density of 21.16 mA?cm^?2 and a fill factor of 0.801, corresponding to a quite high PCE of 12.49%, denoting the dye 7 is a more promising sensitiser candidate than the C217, and is worth further experimental study.     

Electronic band transformation from indirect gap to direct gap in Si-H compound

The electronic band structures of periodic models for Si-H compounds are investigated by the density functional theory.Our results show that the Si-H compound changes from indirect-gap semiconductor to direct-gap semiconductor with the increase of H content.The density of states,the partial density of states and the atomic charge population are examined in detail to explore the origin of this phenomenon.It is found that the Si-Si bonds are affected by H atoms,which results in the electronic band transformation from indirect gap to direct gap.This is confirmed by the nearest neighbour semi-empirical tight-binding (TB) theory.     

第一性原理研究Eu/N共掺杂锐钛矿TiO2光催化剂的电子和光学性质

基于密度泛函理论的第一性原理平面波赝势方法, 运用Vasp方法计算了Eu, N掺杂及Eu/N共掺杂锐钛矿TiO₂的结构, 并分析了其电子及光学性质. 通过计算发现有一些Eu的4f态电子在Eu掺杂锐钛矿TiO₂的体系的费米能级附近出现杂质能级, 并且N掺杂会使得锐钛矿TiO₂的禁带宽度减小. 对于共掺杂体系而言, Eu/N共掺杂的协同效应能导致锐钛矿TiO₂的晶格畸变及禁带宽度减小. 与此同时, 计算得到的光吸收谱表明Eu/N混合掺杂锐钛矿TiO₂展现出了明显的光谱吸收边缘红移. 这些计算结果表明Eu/N共掺杂锐钛矿TiO₂具有优良的光催化活性. 关键词： 2')" href="#">TiO₂ 共掺杂 可见光催化剂 密度泛函理论     

Al，Ga掺杂ZnO电子结构和光电特性的第一性原理计算

采用基于密度泛函理论(DFT)框架下广义梯度近似(GGA)的PBE平面波超软赝势方法,计算了本征ZnO,Al掺杂ZnO(ZnAlO)和Ga掺杂ZnO(ZnGaO)的能带结构、态密度、复介电函数和复电导率. 其中Al或Ga是以替位杂质的形式进入ZnO晶格. 计算结果表明纤锌矿型ZnO,ZnAlO和ZnGaO都是直接带隙半导体材料,掺杂后ZnO的带隙变小,且ZnAlO的带隙略大于ZnGaO. 掺杂后ZnO的电子结构发生变化,费米能级由本征态时位于价带顶上移进入导带,ZnO表现为n型掺杂半导体材料,掺杂后在导带底出现大量由掺杂原子贡献的自由载流子—电子,明显提高了电导率和介电函数,改善了ZnO的导电性能,并且ZnAlO的导电性能要略好于ZnGaO.     

高压对氮化硼纳米管的几何结构、电子结构和光学性质的影响

运用密度泛函理论平面波赝势方法(PWP)和广义梯度近似(GGA),计算研究了纳米管BN(5,5)在不同压力条件下的几何结构、电子结构和光学性质. 在高压条件下管口形状发生了较大的变化. 与闪锌矿结构BN比较分析发现两种结构间存在一些性质上的差异：首先,在外压力作用下,BN(5,5)纳米管的带隙随压力增大而减小,变化率为-0.01795eV/GPa,而闪锌矿结构BN随压力增大而增大;其次光吸收谱在压力条件下,没有和闪锌矿结构BN一样发生“蓝移”,相反在红外方向有所拓展;但纳米管BN(5,5)电子的转移方向和 关键词： 氮化硼纳米管 密度泛函理论(DFT) 电子结构     

Al，Ga掺杂ZnO电子结构和光电特性的第一性原理计算

采用基于密度泛函理论(DFT)框架下广义梯度近似(GGA)的PBE平面波超软赝势方法，计算了本征ZnO，Al掺杂ZnO(ZnAlO)和Ga掺杂ZnO(ZnGaO)的能带结构、态密度、复介电函数和复电导率. 其中Al或Ga是以替位杂质的形式进入ZnO晶格. 计算结果表明纤锌矿型ZnO，ZnAlO和ZnGaO都是直接带隙半导体材料，掺杂后ZnO的带隙变小，且ZnAlO的带隙略大于ZnGaO. 掺杂后ZnO的电子结构发生变化，费米能级由本征态时位于价带顶上移进入导带，ZnO表现为n型掺杂半导体材料，掺杂后在导带底出现大量由掺杂原子贡献的自由载流子—电子，明显提高了电导率和介电函数，改善了ZnO的导电性能，并且ZnAlO的导电性能要略好于ZnGaO.     

Electronic properties of BN-doped bilayer graphene and graphyne in the presence of electric field

In the present paper, we have used density functional theory to study electronic properties of bilayer graphene and graphyne doped with B and N impurities in the presence of electric field. It has been demonstrated that a band gap is opened in the band structures of the bilayer graphene and graphyne by B and N doping. We have also investigated influence of electric field on the electronic properties of BN-doped bilayer graphene and graphyne. It is found that the band gaps induced by B and N impurities are increased by applying electric field. Our results reveal that doping with B and N, and applying electric field are an effective method to open and control a band gap which is useful to design carbon-based next-generation electronic devices.     

Structural, electronic and optical properties of orthorhombic distorted perovskite TbMnO3

This paper calculates the structural parameters, electronic and optical properties of orthorhombic distorted perovskite-type TbMnO3 by first principles using density functional theory within the generalised gradient approximation. The calculated equilibrium lattice constants are in a reasonable agreement with theoretical and experimental data. The energy band structure, density of states and partial density of states of elements are obtained. Band structures show that TbMnO3 is an indirect band gap between the O 2p states and Mn 3d states, and the band gap is of 0.48 eV agreeing with experimental result. Furthermore, the optical properties, including the dielectric function, absorption coefficient, optical reflectivity, refractive index and energy loss spectrum are calculated and analysed, showing that the TbMnO3 is a promising dielectric material.     

DFT and TD-DFT study on structure and properties of organic dye sensitizer TA-St-CA

The geometry, electronic structure, polarizability and hyperpolarizability of organic dye sensitizer TA-St-CA, which contains a π-conjugated oligo-phenylenevinylene unit with an electron donor–acceptor moiety, was studied using density functional theory (DFT), and the electronic absorption spectrum was investigated via time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) with several hybrid functionals. The calculated geometry indicates that the strong conjugated effects are formed in the dye. The TD-DFT results show that the hybrid functional PBE1PBE and MPW1PW91 are more suitable than B3LYP for calculating electronic absorption spectra. The features of electronic absorption spectra were assigned on account of the qualitative agreement between the experiment and the calculations. The absorption bands in visible and near-UV region are related to photoinduced electron transfer processes, and the diphenylaniline group is major chromophore that contributed to the sensitization, and the interfacial electron transfer are electron injection processes from the excited dyes to the semiconductor conduction band. Compared with the similar dye D5, the good performance of TA-St-CA in dye-sensitized solar cells may be resulted from the higher energy level of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital and the larger oscillator strengths for the most excited states with intramolecular electron transfer character.     

Mn掺杂ZnO光学特性的第一性原理计算

采用基于密度泛函理论(DFT)的第一性原理平面波超软赝势方法计算了纤锌矿ZnO及不同量Mn 掺杂ZnO 晶体的电子结构,分析了掺杂对ZnO 晶体的能带结构、电子态密度、差分电荷分布的影响. 计算结果表明,随着Mn 掺杂含量的增加,ZnO 禁带宽度相应增加并且对紫外吸收区的光吸收能力也随之增强. 关键词： 密度泛函理论(DFT) 第一性原理 超软赝势 Mn掺杂ZnO     

Mn掺杂ZnO光学特性的第一性原理计算

采用基于密度泛函理论(DFT)的第一性原理平面波超软赝势方法计算了纤锌矿ZnO及不同量Mn 掺杂ZnO 晶体的电子结构，分析了掺杂对ZnO 晶体的能带结构、电子态密度、差分电荷分布的影响. 计算结果表明，随着Mn 掺杂含量的增加，ZnO 禁带宽度相应增加并且对紫外吸收区的光吸收能力也随之增强.