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Excitonic Hamiltonians for Calculating Optical Absorption Spectra and Optoelectronic Properties of Molecular Aggregates and Solids
Published on: May 27, 2020
Excitonic linewidth of organic quantum wires generated in reduced dimensionality matrices
Thierry Barisien1, Laurent Legrand, Zhao Mu
1Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS-UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005, Paris, France. barisien@insp.jussieu.fr.
Abstract:
Luminescent organic quantum wires are generated in diacetylene crystalline ultra-thin films grown on orientation-inducing surfaces obtained by poly-tetrafluoroethylene (teflon) deposition. The films are characterized by atomic force microscopy showing that quasi-two-dimensional surroundings are achieved. In this particular environment, pure dephasing processes still determine the wires' homogeneous emission widths, measured using micro-photoluminescence. Coherence times that are slightly shorter in the films also exhibit a distinctive temperature dependence. A model inspired by semiconductor physics for exciton-phonon coupling accounts for the observed behaviour and evidences the role of matrix dimensionality on the coherence properties.
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