Interaction of dyes with Ag<Subscript>2</Subscript>S nanoclusters adsorbed on AgBr microcrystals

The photoexcitation relaxation is considered in a system consisting of a molecular and J-aggregated dye adsorbed on the surface of silver sulfide nanosized clusters (nanoclusters) placed on AgBr microc-rystals. It is found that the photoexcitation in the region of the dye absorption relaxes not only via the fluorescence, but also via the phosphorescence of nanoclusters. It is shown that, depending on the dye, the phosphorescence of nanoclusters is most efficiently excited in the absorption region of either molecular or J-aggregated states of dyes. It is assumed that this difference is caused by different nature of the adsorption of dyes on the nanocluster surface and by different interactions between the photoexcited states of dye molecules and J aggregates. These results can find wide applications in various fields of nanophotonics and allow one to both control the photoexcitation relaxation processes in nanocluster-dye systems and to observe new manifestations of these processes.     

2'-脱氧鸟苷在水溶液中激发态氢键动力学的密度泛函理论研究

用密度泛函理论和含时密度泛函理论研究了2'-脱氧鸟苷在水溶液中形成的一水和二水复合物在基态和激发态的氢键性质．计算了两种复合物的稳定构型、红外光谱、前沿分子轨道以及密里根电荷等光物理参数．结果表明,两种水合物的分子内氢键在光激发下变化不一致,分子间氢键变化相似．一水复合物的分子内氢键N3···H4-O2 在激发态是加强的,二水复合物的是减弱的．两种水合物的分子间氢键N2-H2···O3和O3-H5···O2及O3···H7-O4和H5···O1-C1在激发态全是减弱的．两种复合物红外光谱的计算结果与实验值一致．二水复合物中分子间氢键O4···H1-N1在激发态断裂,形成了新的分子间氢键O4···H3-N2,这种变化可能与鸟嘌呤部分的结构弯曲有关．最后分析了一水和二水复合物分子的分子内电子转移特性．     

Primary photoexcitations and the origin of the photocurrent in rubrene single crystals

By simultaneously measuring the excitation spectra of transient luminescence and transient photoconductivity after picosecond pulsed excitation in rubrene single crystals, we show that free excitons are photoexcited starting at photon energies above 2.0 eV. We observe a competition between photoexcitation of free excitons and photoexcitation into vibronic states that subsequently decays into free carriers, while molecular excitons are instead formed predominantly through the free exciton. At photon energies below 2.25 eV, free charge carriers are created only through a long-lived intermediate state with a lifetime of up to 0.1 ms and no free carriers appear during the exciton lifetime.     

Time domain investigation of the intrachain vibrational dynamics of a prototypical light-emitting conjugated polymer

Coherent nuclear motion of the carbon backbone is monitored in real time in substituted poly(phenylene)-vinylene in both excited and ground electronic state using sub-10-fs light pulses. Characteristic features of the intrachain vibrational dynamics are obtained. We observe vibrational dephasing in the excited state within 1 ps (time constant T(2e) approximately 300 fs). These findings are in agreement with the molecular picture for photoexcitation in conjugated polymers.     

Direct photoexcitation of intramolecular proton transfer states in 3-hydroxyflavone

It is shown that the photoexcitation of 3-hydroxyflavone at the red edge of its absorption spectrum can directly excite luminescing intramolecular proton-transfer forms of molecules of this compound. This offers new possibilities for studying the fundamental properties of molecular objects with intramolecular proton transfer, which are currently considered as promising multiparametric molecular sensors.     

Ab initio investigation of the I-V characteristics of the butadiene nano-molecular wires: A light-driven molecular switch

We apply a first-principles computational approach to study a light-sensitive molecular switch. The molecule that comprises the switch can convert between a trans and a cis configuration upon photoexcitation. We find that the conductance of the two isomers varies dramatically, which suggests that this system has potential application as a molecular device. A detailed analysis of the projection of the density of states (PDOS) and the transmission coefficients T(E) of the system reveals the mechanism of the switch.     

Coherent magnetization rotation and phase control by ultrashort optical pulses in CrO(2) thin films

We have applied photoexcitation by ultrashort laser pulses to single crystal thin CrO(2) films to trigger coherent transient magnetization rotation on a subnanosecond time scale, in macroscale single domains. Moreover, by applying the photoexcitation by pairs of temporally separated pump pulses, the transient precession of the magnetization can be phase controlled, depending on the time separation between the pulses. The mechanism behind the photoexcitation originates from the modulation of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy by nonthermal hot electron spins.     

有机高分子链内的场致激子解离

基于SSH(Su-Schrieffer-Heeger)模型,采用静态及动力学自洽算法模拟了有机高分子链内激子在光激发及外电场作用下的形成与解离过程。结果表明,受光激发后,有机高分子链内激子的生成与解离密切依赖于施加外电场的时机,当外电场与光激发同时发生时,激子能否生成完全取决于电场强度的大小;而当外电场在光激发后的一段时间(通常为皮秒量级)之后被引入,则在有机高分子链内能够形成稳定的激子,且该激子只有在强外电场(超过1MV/cm)的作用下,才会发生解离,临界场强量级与实验结果相符合。     

Coherent electron transport through an azobenzene molecule: a light-driven molecular switch

We apply a first-principles computational approach to study a light-sensitive molecular switch. The molecule that comprises the switch can convert between a trans and a cis configuration upon photoexcitation. We find that the conductance of the two isomers varies dramatically, which suggests that this system has potential application as a molecular device. A detailed analysis of the band structure of the metal leads and the local density of states of the system reveals the mechanism of the switch.     

Phenylazoimidazole as a possible optical molecular switch: An ab initio study

By applying nonequilibrium Green's function formalism combined first-principles density functional theory, we investigate the electronic transport properties of the phenylazoimidazole optical molecular switch. The molecule that comprises the switch can convert between the cis and the trans forms upon photoexcitation. The influence of HOMO–LUMO gaps and the spatial distributions of molecular orbitals on the electronic transport through the molecular device are discussed in detail. Theoretical results show that the current through the trans form is significantly larger than through the cis form, which suggests this system has attractive potential application in future molecular switch technology.     

Real-time ab initio simulations of excited carrier dynamics in carbon nanotubes

Combining time-dependent density functional calculations for electrons with molecular dynamics simulations for ions, we investigate the dynamics of excited carriers in a (3,3) carbon nanotube at different temperatures. Following an hnu=6.8 eV photoexcitation, the carrier decay is initially dominated by efficient coupling to electronic degrees of freedom. At room temperature, the excitation gap is reduced to nearly half its initial value after approximately 230 fs, where coupling to ionic motion starts dominating the decay. We show that the onset point and damping rate in the phonon regime change with initial ion velocities, a manifestation of temperature-dependent coupling between electronic and ionic degrees of freedom.     

Ultrafast changes of molecular crystal structure induced by dipole solvation

Femtosecond photoexcitation of organic chromophores in a molecular crystal induces strong changes of the electronic dipole moment via intramolecular charge transfer as is evident from transient vibrational spectra. The structural response of the crystal to the dipole change is mapped directly for the first time by ultrafast x-ray diffraction or diffuse scattering. Changes of diffracted and transmitted x-ray intensity demonstrate an angular rearrangement of molecules around excited dipoles following the 10 ps kinetics of charge transfer and leaving lattice plane spacings unchanged. Transient x-ray scattering is governed by solvation, masking changes of the chromophore molecular structure.     

Linear response in the strong field domain

We show that, while it is well-known that first-order perturbation theory leads to linear response (of, e.g., a material system to an external field), the reverse is not true: linear response does not necessarily imply the validity of first-order perturbation theory, nor does it follow from it that the external perturbation is weak. We do so by analyzing the intensity dependence in the photoexcitation followed by dissociation or isomerization of a bound molecular system by a shaped broadband laser pulse. We show that, in certain cases where strong field effects are definitely present, the observed photoexcitation yield as a function of intensity may exhibit linear dependence over a wide range of intensities. The behavior is shown to coexist with a rather extensive range of coherent control over the branching ratios, an effect that was shown in the past to be impossible in the single precursor state (e.g., in the first-order perturbation theory) domain. For example, we demonstrate computationally that when (flat continuum-mediated) Raman transitions are present, appropriate pulse shaping can lead to a linear yield with intensity over a wide range of intensities, while coherent control over the branching ratio is significant. Thus, it is not necessary to invoke external bath effects (as is currently being done) to explain present-day experiments where coherent control is observed in the linear response regime.     

1,3-diphenyltriazene as a possible optical molecular switch: A first-principles study

By applying nonequilibrium Green's function formalism combined with first-principles density functional theory, we investigate the electronic transport properties of a 1,3-diphenyltriazene-based optical molecular switch. The molecule that comprises the switch can convert between the cis and the trans forms upon photoexcitation. The transmission spectra of two forms are remarkably distinctive. Theoretical results show that the current through the trans form is significantly larger than that through the cis form, which suggests that this system has attractive potential application in future molecular switch technology.     

Variation of the luminescence spectra of spray pyrolyzed CdS with photoexcitation energy

We report that spray pyrolyzed CdS has a luminescence spectrum that dramatically changes with incident photoexcitation energy. Over the photoexcitation range between 1.94 eV and 2.71 eV, the intensity of the 1.22 eV (1020 nm) luminescence line is constant, but that of the 1.55 eV (800 nm) luminescence line first increases, then decreases, and then remains constant. These results are used to measure the 1.55 eV line trap energy of 1.90 eV, and to demonstrate the role of localized carriers in the 1.55 eV line trap cross-section.     

Geometry Relaxation of Photoexcited States in Conjugated Molecules

The random phase approximation combined with semiempirical Hamiltonians is applied to compute and analyze electronic structure and excited state adiabatic potentials of several conjugated molecules. Calculated excited state energies and parameters of molecular adiabatic surfaces characterize the coupled dynamics of vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom. The analysis identifies the specific torsional and bond-stretching nuclear motions that dominate the excited state relaxation and lead to self-localized excitations. This approach is an inexpensive and numerically efficient method of computing molecular excited state adiabatic surfaces and modeling femto-to-pico second time-dependent photoexcitation processes along chosen trajectories.     

Heteroannihilation of the excited states of associates and monomers of fluorescein dyes on the silica surface at low temperatures

The processes of homo-and hetero-triplet—triplet annihilation (TTA) of Bengali rose on the spongy silicon surface have been investigated. It has been found that upon pulse photoexcitation on the silica surface photophysical processes involving the triplet states of monomers and their associates can develop. It has been shown that the processes of hetero-TTA are inhibited due to the decomposition of associates under the influence of hexane molecules in the molecular clusters of the dye adsorbates. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 734–737, November–December, 2005.     

Optical-Optical Double Resonance Spectroscopy of the H1(u)((3)P(1))-A(3)Pi(1u)-X(1)Sigma(+)(g) Transition of I(2)

We report the analysis of the H1(u)((3)P(1)) state of I(2) by optical-optical double resonance. This state lies in the second tier of ion-pair states and its observation was achieved by using the (1 + 2) photoexcitation sequence using the A(3)Pi(1u) state as an intermediate. The molecular parameters were obtained from data for 0 相似文献   

The effect of porphyrin supramolecular structure on singlet oxygen photogeneration

This work is to show that activity of porphyrins in singlet oxygen generation (SOG) is determined not only by their molecular structure but also by supramolecular structure of porphyrin containing systems. This is demonstrated by results of studies of SOG in the gas phase by vacuum deposited tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) layers under photoexcitation conditions. The structure of the layers was studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM), TEM in diffraction regime (TED) and by the flicker-noise spectroscopy (FNS) method. It was shown that substrates affect the deposited layers structure only at earlier stages of the layer formation. AFM and TED data, together with FNS quantitative parameters of TPP layers, show directly that the chemical activity of solid-phase systems can be determined not only by their chemical nature but also by their supramolecular structure.     

Picosecond transient photoconductivity in functionalized pentacene molecular crystals probed by terahertz pulse spectroscopy

We have measured transient photoconductivity in functionalized pentacene molecular crystals using ultrafast optical pump-terahertz probe techniques. The single crystal samples were excited using 800 nm, 100 fs pulses, and the change in transmission of time-delayed, subpicosecond terahertz pulses was used to probe the photoconducting state over a temperature range from 10 to 300 K. A subpicosecond rise in photoconductivity is observed, suggesting that mobile carriers are a primary photoexcitation. At times longer than 4 ps, a power-law decay is observed consistent with dispersive transport.