Excitonic recombination in superstoichiometric nanocrystalline TiO2 grown by cluster precursors at room temperature
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Francesca Detto, Nicola Armani, Laura Lazzarini, Tullio Toccoli, Roberto Verucchi, Lucrezia Aversa, Barbara Rossi, Giancarlo Salviati, Salvatore Iannotta
Unprecedented room temperature excitonic emissions are achieved from TiO2 nanocrystals synthesized at 300 K by supersonic cluster beams. Transmission electron microscopy studies show the crystalline nature of the nanoparticles (NPs) with a diameter ranging from 5 to 30 nm. All the samples show mixed rutile and anatase phases as confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. XPS core level analyses evidence an O/Ti ratio of the as-grown nanoparticles of 2.30 ± 0.04. Two room temperature cathodoluminescence excitonic peaks observed at 3.16 and 3.25 eV are ascribed to the coexistence of rutile and anatase crystallographic phases respectively. Subsequent thermal treatments at 450 °C cause the complete quenching of the UV excitonic emissions and result in a more conventional broad visible band centered at 2.5 eV. HRTEM and XPS studies reveal that, after annealing, the NPs remain single crystals in nature with an O/Ti ratio of 2.20 ± 0.04. These results suggest a correlation between the emission properties and the oxygen concentration of our NPs. The achieved ability to tune the optical properties of TiO2 nanoparticles is very promising for sensing and energy applications.
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