Abstract
We present a study concerning the effect of the on-site Coulomb interaction term U on the electronic and optical properties of the rutile TiO2(110) surface as compared with those of the rutile TiO2(011)-2×1 surface. The calculations were performed using the so-called LSDA+U approach, in which U=5eV was added for the treatment of the Ti-3d electrons. For the rutile TiO2(110) surface, the conventional LSDA calculations give an underestimated band gap and there was no obvious improvement on the band gap after the treatment of U approximation was considered in LSDA. However, for the rutile TiO2(011)-2×1 surface, the conventional LSDA calculations could reproduce the optimal agreement with the experimental band gap ∼2.10eV, leading to the LSDA+U calculations giving an overestimation to the band gap. Finally, the calculated optical properties of the rutile TiO2(110) and (011)-2×1 surfaces further proved the above same.
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