Université de Fribourg

Strongly bound excitons in anatase TiO₂ single crystals and nanoparticles

Baldini, Eduardo ; Chiodo, Letizia ; Dominguez, A. ; Palummo, M. ; Moser, S. ; Yazdi-Rizi, Meghdad ; Auböck, G. ; Mallett, Benjamin P. P. ; Berger, Helmuth ; Magrez, Arnaud ; Bernhard, Christian ; Grioni, M. ; Rubio, Angel ; Chergui, Majed

In: Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 13

Anatase TiO₂ is among the most studied materials for light-energy conversion applications, but the nature of its fundamental charge excitations is still unknown. Yet it is crucial to establish whether light absorption creates uncorrelated electron–hole pairs or bound excitons and, in the latter case, to determine their character. Here, by combining steady-state angle-resolved...