Artigo Revisado por pares

Singlet-Exciton Fusion in Molecular Solids: A Direct Subpicosecond Determination of Time-Dependent Annihilation Rates

1985; American Physical Society; Volume: 55; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.55.1331

ISSN

1092-0145

Autores

B. I. Greene, R. R. Millard,

Tópico(s)

Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Resumo

The first kinetic data displaying a time-dependent singlet-exciton-annihilation rate have been observed. Subpicosecond optical excitation of polycrystalline thin-film samples of $\ensuremath{\beta}$-hydrogen phthalocyanine resulted in excitonic saturation of the crystal lattice. The initial exciton decay yields the only unambiguous measurement of a characteristic annihilation interaction rate for molecular excitons on adjacent lattice sites.

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