Time-dependent density functional study of the electronic spectra of oligoacenes in the charge states -1, 0, +1, and +2

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2007-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/0707.3045v1

Physics

Chemical Physics

38 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables, accepted for publication in Chemical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.chemphys.2007.07.046

We present a systematic theoretical study of the five smallest oligoacenes (naphthalene, anthracene, tetracene, pentacene, and hexacene) in their anionic,neutral, cationic, and dicationic charge states. We used density functional theory (DFT) to obtain the ground-state optimised geometries, and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) to evaluate the electronic absorption spectra. Total-energy differences enabled us to evaluate the electron affinities and first and second ionisation energies, the quasiparticle correction to the HOMO-LUMO energy gap and an estimate of the excitonic effects in the neutral molecules. Electronic absorption spectra have been computed by combining two different implementations of TD-DFT: the frequency-space method to study general trends as a function of charge-state and molecular size for the lowest-lying in-plane long-polarised and short-polarised $\pi\to\pi^\star$ electronic transitions, and the real-time propagation scheme to obtain the whole photo-absorption cross-section up to the far-UV. Doubly-ionised PAHs are found to display strong electronic transitions of $\pi\to\pi^\star$ character in the near-IR, visible, and near-UV spectral ranges, like their singly-charged counterparts. While, as expected, the broad plasmon-like structure with its maximum at about 17-18 eV is relatively insensitive to the charge-state of the molecule, a systematic decrease with increasing positive charge of the absorption cross-section between about 6 and about 12 eV is observed for each member of the class.

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