Absorption and emission spectra of molecular excitons in single perylene nanocrystals

作者:Ishino Heisuke*; Iwai Shigeto; Iwamoto Shunji; Okumura Tsuneo; Nishimoto Tomokazu; Nair Selvakumar V; Kobayashi Takayoshi; Tokunaga Eiji
来源:Physical Review B, 2011, 84(4): 041303.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.041303

摘要

Nonlinear absorption spectra of single alpha-perylene nanocrystals of 150-300 nm in size were measured at low temperature by multichannel phase-sensitive pump-probe microspectroscopy. For nanocrystals, free exciton (FE) absorption blueshifts while self-trapped exciton (STE) emission redshifts and FE emission is intense, compared with bulk crystals. The mechanism of the redshift is suggested to be lattice softening from a redshift in space-resolved STE emission at the edge of bulk crystals. The FE absorption band of several single nanocrystals shows a double-peak structure, suggesting that the blueshift is due to B-u excitons, which are much stronger in oscillator strength than Au excitons, yet difficult to observe in bulk crystals.

  • 出版日期2011-7-8