Avudaithaia, M and Kutty, TRN (1988) EPR study of trap-centres produced on TiO2 particles during water photolysis. In: Materials Research Bulletin, 23 (11). pp. 1675-1683.
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Abstract
The results of an EPR investigation are presented on the paramagnetic trap-centres produced on hydrothermally prepared TiO2 particles during water photolysis at room temperature under band-gap irradiation. The trapped holes correspond to O− species adjacent to cation vacancies that are formed to compensate the hydroxyl ions in the subsurface layers. The trapped electrons are accounted for as Ti3+ in the conduction band or Ti3+ - adjoining oxygen vacancy to form shallow donor states. Although hole-centres are normally stabler than electron-centres, strongly adsorbed donor molecules reverse the stability. Concentration of hole-centres is increased by the presence of platinum on TiO2 surface and electron-centres are not detected on Pt/TiO2 during water photolysis.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Materials Research Bulletin |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Inorganic & Physical Chemistry |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2009 03:08 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 05:38 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/21721 |
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