Unbound exciton–phonon states in oligothiophene crystals – A model approach for spectroscopic purposes

A simple model of exciton–phonon interaction in a crystal with one molecule in the unit cell is used to simulate some peculiar features of the oligothiophene absorption spectra. The model is treated in the limit of weak vibronic coupling, and the configuration interaction between the intense zero-phonon Frenkel state and the one-phonon continuum is described in terms of the Fano formalism. The good agreement between the calculated curve and a part of the experimental absorption profile allows one to discriminate some features that are physically relevant but are not accounted for in the model.     

Phonon dispersion curves and densities of lithium-intercalated iron phosphorus trisulfide

Summary The lattice dynamics of Li-intercalated FePS₃ has been studied by means of a force constant model generated by a set of short-range two-body potentials. The intercalated phases have been investigated for the three stoichiometric compositions: Li_0.5FePS₃, LiFePS₃, Li_1.5FePS₃, with the aim of analysing the evolution of the host lattice normal modes as a function of the concentration, and of finding the dispersion of the new phonon branches induced by lithium. The above special values of lithium concentration have been chosen because the size of the unit cell keeps the same as in the host material. The force constants are fitted to the infrared data and the phonon dispersion curves and the phonon energy densities have been calculated. A spectroscopic method for monitoring lithium migration in the host material is proposed.     

CaBa-铝酸盐玻璃中Cr4+谱线宽度随温度的变化

测量了15~300K温度范围内57.5%Al_1.5O-35%CaO-7.5%BaO玻璃中四价铬的发射光谱.这种材料中铬离子的能级处于Tanabe-Sugano图上弱场范围中,最低的激发态是³T₂,发射谱是一个宽带.按照单频近似理论拟合低温下的光谱,得到³T₂能级的零声子线位置E_zp=8400cm^-1,声子能量tω=320cm^-1,黄昆因子S=358.尽管单频近似能够较好地描述低温下的线形,发射光谱宽度随温度的变化却与单频近似理论的结果不符.讨论了这种差别的原因,认为可能的解释是与激发态耦合的声子能量大于与基态耦合的声子能量.     

Vibrational spectroscopic investigation of poly(p‐phenylene sulfide)

Poly(p‐phenylene sulfide) (PPS) is an important polymer of engineering interest particularly useful in the electronics and automotive industries. Normal mode analysis including phonon dispersion has been performed to understand completely the vibrational spectra of this polymer. Various characteristic features of the dispersion curves have been reported. Crossing/Repulsion between various pairs of modes at certain phase values have been explained as arising due to internal symmetry in the energy momentum space. The heat capacity is calculated as a function of temperature via density‐of‐states in the range 220–360 K. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 47: 2353–2367, 2009     

Full counting statistics of phonon transport in disordered systems

The coherent potential approximation (CPA) within full counting statistics (FCS) formalism is shown to be a suitable method to investigate average electric conductance, shot noise as well as higher order cumulants in disordered systems. We develop a similar FCS-CPA formalism for phonon transport through disordered systems. As a byproduct, we derive relations among coefficients of different phonon current cumulants. We apply the FCS-CPA method to investigate phonon transport properties of graphene systems in the presence of disorders. For binary disorders as well as Anderson disorders, we calculate up to the 8-th phonon transmission moments and demonstrate that the numerical results of the FCS-CPA method agree very well with that of the brute force method. The benchmark shows that the FCS-CPA method achieves 20 times more speedup ratio. Collective features of phonon current cumulants are also revealed.     

Biradicaloid Character of Thiophene‐Based Heterophenoquinones: The Role of Electron–Phonon Coupling

The quinoidal versus biradicaloid character of the ground state of a series of thiophene‐based heterophenoquinones is investigated with quantum‐chemical calculations. The role of the ground‐state electronic character on molecular structure and vibrational properties is emphasized. The vibrational activities are experimentally determined and their analysis is performed by taking advantage of the definition of a collective vibrational coordinate (the

     

Polar optical phonon states and dispersive spectra of wurtzite ZnO nanocrystals embedded in zinc-blende MgO matrix

Based on the macroscopic dielectric continuum model and Loudon’s uniaxial crystal model, the polar optical phonon modes of a quasi-0-dimensional (Q0D) wurtzite spherical nanocrystal embedded in zinc-blende dielectric matrix are derived and studied. It is found that there are two types of polar phonon modes, i.e. interface optical (IO) phonon modes and the quasi-confined (QC) phonon modes coexisting in Q0D wurtzite ZnO nanocrystal embedded in zinc-blende MgO matrix. Via solving Laplace equations under spheroidal and spherical coordinates, the unified and analytical phonon states and dispersive equations of IO and QC modes are derived. Numerical calculations on a wurtzite/zinc-blende ZnO/MgO nanocrystal are performed. The frequency ranges of the IO and QC phonon modes of the ZnO/MgO nanocrystals are analyzed and discussed. It is found that the IO modes only exist in one frequency range, while QC modes may appear in three frequency ranges. The dispersive frequencies of IO and QC modes are the discrete functions of orbital quantum numbers l and azimuthal quantum numbers m. Moreover, a pair of given l and m corresponds to one IO mode, but to more than one branches of QC. The analytical phonon states and dispersive equations obtained here are quite useful for further investigating Raman spectra of phonons and other relative properties of wurtzite/zinc-blende Q0D nanocrystal structures.     

固体微/纳米尺度传热理论研究进展

随着半导体技术的飞速发展,器件的尺寸已进入到微/纳米尺度。由于量子效应、表面及界面效应,使得微尺度下的热物性与宏观尺度下有了明显的区别。人们针对微观传热领域的特点,发展了声子玻尔兹曼传输方程、分子动力学等方法,取得了一定的成果,但仍存在不少问题。一些基础概念问题,特别是非平衡态下的局域温度的定义,有待澄清。本文主要回顾近年来微/纳米尺度传热在理论和数值模拟方面的进展,以及目前所面临的挑战和问题。     

Charge transfer excitons: dynamic theory of vibronic spectra

The vibronic spectra of charge transfer excitons (CTE) in a molecular one-component or alternatingly ordered two-component chain are treated in the framework of a dynamic approach (neglecting thermal excitations of the intramolecular vibrations). The model introduces two mechanisms of coupling between CTEs and vibrational quanta: (1) shift of the equilibrium positions of the nuclei in the ionized donor or acceptor; (2) change of the vibrational frequency in the ionized molecule. This model allows to generalize the simple CTE Hamiltonian and the vibronic Hamiltonian of Frenkel excitons. The linear optical susceptibility is calculated in the vibronic region (one CTE and one vibrational quantum). The double splitting of vibronics of CTEs was analyzed: (1) the splitting connected with the location of the intramolecular vibration on the donors or on the acceptors; (2) the splitting connected with the symmetry of the vibronic spectra (in the degenerate case). The general structure of the vibronic spectra of CTEs is established. It contains structureless absorption lines, which correspond to two-particle bands (the phonon is excited on a neutral molecule neighboring the donor or the acceptor) and Lorentz-type lines of one-particle states, which correspond to the bound propagation of the CTE and the phonon.     

声子色散对极性晶体中磁极化子基态能量的影响

利用线性组合算符和幺正变换相结合的方法,研究了声子色散对极性晶体中磁极化子基态能量的影响。计及纵光学（LO）声子色散,在抛物近似下导出了极性晶体中磁极化子基态能量随电子-纵光学声子耦合常数、回旋共振频率和声子色散系数的变化关系。数值计算结果表明磁极化子基态能量随声子色散系数和电子-纵光学声子耦合常数的增大而减小,随回旋共振频率增大而增大。