Nanostructured titanium dioxide (ns-TiO2) films were grown by supersonic cluster beam deposition method. Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that films are mainly composed by TiO2 nanocrystals embedded in an amorphous TiO2 phase while their elec- tronic structure was studied by photoemission spectroscopy. The cluster assembled ns-TiO2 films are expected to exhibit several struc- tural and chemical defects owing to the large surface to volume ratio of the deposited clusters. Ultraviolet photoemission spectra (hv = 50 eV) from the valence band unveil the presence of a restrained amount of surface Ti 3d defect states in the band gap, whereas Ti 2p core level X-ray photoelectron (hv = 630 eV) spectra do not manifestly disclose these defects.
Photoemission investigations on nanostructured TiO2 grown by cluster assembling / T. Caruso, C. Lenardi, T. Mazza, A. Policicchio, G. Bongiorno, R.G. Agostino, G. Chiarello, E. Colavita, P. Finetti, K.C. Prince, C. Ducati, P. Piseri, P. Milani. - In: SURFACE SCIENCE. - ISSN 0039-6028. - 601:13(2007), pp. 2688-2691.
Photoemission investigations on nanostructured TiO2 grown by cluster assembling
C. Lenardi;T. Mazza;G. Bongiorno;P. Piseri;P. Milani
2007
Abstract
Nanostructured titanium dioxide (ns-TiO2) films were grown by supersonic cluster beam deposition method. Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that films are mainly composed by TiO2 nanocrystals embedded in an amorphous TiO2 phase while their elec- tronic structure was studied by photoemission spectroscopy. The cluster assembled ns-TiO2 films are expected to exhibit several struc- tural and chemical defects owing to the large surface to volume ratio of the deposited clusters. Ultraviolet photoemission spectra (hv = 50 eV) from the valence band unveil the presence of a restrained amount of surface Ti 3d defect states in the band gap, whereas Ti 2p core level X-ray photoelectron (hv = 630 eV) spectra do not manifestly disclose these defects.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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