Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11

Additions and corrections

Characterization of the and electronic states of titanium dioxide, TiO2

Hailing Wang, Timothy C. Steimle, Cristina Apetrei and John P. Maier

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 2649–2656, DOI: 10.1039/b821849h. Amendment published 1st March 2010

An error in the program code used to model the optical Stark effect in the band at 18655 cm−1 of TiO2 has been discovered. Specifically, the previously used code erroneously included levels that are not allowed by nuclear spin statistics. The corrected code fits the optical Stark spectra to give the permanent electric dipole moments, µe, of 7.00 ± 0.10D and 5.11 ± 0.23D for the and states, respectively. The correlation coefficient is 0.66. The corrected differences between the observed and calculated Stark shifts and the standard deviation of the fit of Table 2 are given below.

Table 2. The observed and calculated Stark shifts for the R202 line of the (000-000) band of TiO2.


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