A combined molecular dynamics and computational spectroscopy study of a dye-sensitized solar cell

作者:Gebauer Ralph*; De Angelis Filippo
来源:New Journal of Physics, 2011, 13(8): 085013.
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/13/8/085013

摘要

An organic dye-sensitized solar cell consisting of a squaraine molecule attached to a TiO(2) surface is modeled using first-principles molecular dynamics and time-dependent density functional theory. The system is surrounded by solvent molecules that are treated at the same level of theory as the dye molecule and the surface. The effect of the solvent on optical properties is investigated by computing many absorption spectra for various configurations along a molecular dynamics trajectory. It is shown that the dynamical effects induced by thermal fluctuations have a strong effect on the optical properties and that satisfactory agreement with experiments is achieved only when those thermal effects are accounted for explicitly.

  • 出版日期2011-8-16