Strong polaronic effects on rutile TiO2 electronic band edges

• Thin TiO2 films are prepared by dc magnetron sputtering as well as by the sol-gel technique, and the optical band edge absorption alpha(omega) is obtained from transmission spectroscopy. The electronic structure and optical properties are studied employing a first-principle linearized augmented plane-wave method within the local density approximation (LDA), improved by an on-site Coulomb self-interaction potential (LDA+U-SIC). We show that the correction potential, the polaronic screening, and the spin-orbit interaction are crucial for determining the TiO2 effective electron and hole masses. The dielectric function and the high-frequency constant epsilon(0 <

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dielectric-constant

optical-properties

films

wurtzite

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