Ultrafast dynamics of excitons in tetracene single crystals

作者:Birech Zephania*; Schwoerer Markus; Schmeiler Teresa; Pflaum Jens; Schwoerer Heinrich
来源:Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014, 140(11): 114501.
DOI:10.1063/1.4867696

摘要

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 %26lt; 10 ps timescale.

  • 出版日期2014-3-21