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Linearly polarized emission of an organic semiconductor nanobelt
Aniket Datar1, Kaushik Balakrishnan, Xiaomei Yang
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.
Abstract:
Linearly polarized emission has been observed for the nanobelts fabricated from a perylene diimide molecule through both solution-based and surface-supported self-assembling. The measurement of polarized emission was performed over single nanobelts with use of a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) adapted with emission polarization (by putting a planar polarizer before the detector). Rotating the emission polarizer (from 0 degrees to 180 degrees) changed the emission intensity in a way depending on the relative angle between the long axis of the belt and the polarizer with a minimum of intensity detected at ca. 78 degrees, which is indicative of the tilted stacking of molecules along the belt direction.

