Study of Band Gap of Silver Nanoparticles—Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites

Table 1

Element's amount and XPS line position evaluated from XPS data.

Sample	Element’s amount (%)			XPS line position (eV)
	Ti	O	Ag	Ti 2p 3/2	O 1S	Ag 3d 5/2
Anatase	29.80	70.19		459.16	530.29
Ag6/An	30.73	68.90	0.30	459.57	529.24	368.30
Ag12/An	28.41	70.92	0.66	458.09	529.16	368.03
Ag25/An	28.15	70.75	1.09	457.82	529.75	369.30
Ag50/An	28.83	75.05	1.11	457.40	530.13	367.72
Rutile	22.70	77.30		459.90	529.91
Ag6/Ru	22.87	77.07	0.05	458.60	530.60	368.62
Ag12/Ru	24.18	75.74	0.07	458.20	530.40	368.11
Ag25/Ru	23.18	76.65	0.17	459.01	531.20	369.32
Ag50/Ru	21.58	78.22	0.2	459.10	529.20	369.20