A. Hugotlegoff et P. Falaras, ORIGIN OF NEW BANDS IN THE RAMAN-SPECTRA OF DYE MONOLAYERS ADSORBED ON NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO2, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 142(3), 1995, pp. 38-41
The adsorption of dye monolayers on nanocrystalline titanium dioxide s
urfaces leads to high photoelectrochemical yields in the visible range
, which gives a renewal of interest in the use of this system in solar
energy. A high resonance effect in these dyes enabled the attainment
of the Raman spectra of the adsorbed molecules; further, a new series
of Raman peaks appeared during the polarization of TiO2 modified by Ru
-bipyridinium compounds in the presence of an electron donor. They cor
respond to a molecular configuration in which an electron is exchanged
during the measurement between a particular ligand and a substrate ti
tanium atom. This configuration appears then to be similar to the shor
t-lived excited state of the metal ligand charge-transfer complex (MLC
T).