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Title: | Ab initio calculations on SnCl₂and Franck-Condon factor simulations of its ã-X˜ and B˜-X˜ absorption and single-vibronic-level emission spectra | Authors: | Lee, EPF Dyke, JM Mok, DKW Chow, WK Chau, FT |
Issue Date: | 14-Jul-2007 | Source: | Journal of chemical physics, 14 July 2007, v. 127, no. 2, 024308, p. 1-15 | Abstract: | Minimum-energy geometries, harmonic vibrational frequencies, and relative electronic energies of some low-lying singlet and triplet electronic states of stannous dichloride, SnCl₂, have been computed employing the complete-active-space self-consistent-field/multireference configuration interaction (CASSCF/MRCI) and/or restricted-spin coupled-cluster single-double plus perturbative triple excitations [RCCSD(T)] methods. The small core relativistic effective core potential, ECP28MDF, was used for Sn in these calculations, together with valence basis sets of up to augmented correlation-consistent polarized-valence quintuple-zeta (aug-cc-pV5Z) quality. Effects of outer core electron correlation on computed geometrical parameters have been investigated, and contributions of off-diagonal spin-orbit interaction to relative electronic energies have been calculated. In addition, RCCSD(T) or CASSCF/MRCI potential energy functions of the X˜¹A₁, ã³B₁, and B˜¹B₁ states of SnCl₂have been computed and used to calculate anharmonic vibrational wave functions of these three electronic states. Franck-Condon factors between the X˜¹A₁ state, and the ã³B₁and B˜ ¹B₁ states of SnCl₂, which include anharmonicity and Duschinsky rotation, were then computed, and used to simulate the ã-X˜ and B˜-X˜ absorption and corresponding single-vibronic-level emission spectra of SnCl₂which are yet to be recorded. It is anticipated that these simulated spectra will assist spectroscopic identification of gaseous SnCl₂in the laboratory and/or will be valuable in in situ monitoring of SnCl₂in the chemical vapor deposition of SnO₂thin films in the semiconductor gas sensor industry by laser induced fluorescence and/or ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy, when a chloride-containing tin compound, such as tin dichloride or dimethyldichlorotin, is used as the tin precursor. | Keywords: | Tin compounds Franck-Condon factors Vibrational states Triplet state Configuration interactions Potential energy functions Vibronic states Ab initio calculations Perturbation theory Electron correlations SCF calculations Spin-orbit interactions Luminescence Semiconductor thin films Chemical vapour deposition |
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics | Journal: | Journal of chemical physics | ISSN: | 0021-9606 | EISSN: | 1089-7690 | DOI: | 10.1063/1.2749508 | Rights: | © 2007 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in E. P. F. Lee et al., J. Chem. Phys. 127, 024308 (2007) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?jcp/127/024308. |
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