Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in tetracene single crystals
Date
2014-03-18
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AIP Publishing LLC
Abstract
Ultrafast exciton dynamics in free standing 200 nm thin tetracene single crystals were studied at room temperature by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in the visible spectral range. The complex spectrally overlapping transient absorption traces of single crystals were systematically deconvoluted. From this, the ultrafast dynamics of the ground, excited, and transition states were identified including singlet exciton fission into two triplet excitons. Fission is generated through both, direct fission of higher singlet states S n on a sub-picosecond timescale, and thermally activated fission of the singlet exciton S 1 on a 40 ps timescale. The high energy Davydov component of the S 1 exciton is proposed to undergo fission on a sub-picoseconds timescale. At high density of triplet excitons their mutual annihilation (triplet-triplet annihilation) occurs on a <10 ps timescale.
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Please cite as follows: Birech, Z., Schwoerer, M., Schmeiler, T., Pflaum, J. & Schwoerer, H. 2014. Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in tetracene single crystals. Journal of Chemical Physics, 140, 114501, doi:10.1063/1.4867696.
The original publication is available at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp
The original publication is available at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp
Keywords
Tetracene single crystals, Exciton theory, Femtosecond spectrometry
Citation
Birech, Z., Schwoerer, M., Schmeiler, T., Pflaum, J. & Schwoerer, H. 2014. Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in tetracene single crystals. Journal of Chemical Physics, 140, 114501, doi:10.1063/1.4867696.