Center for the Study of the Excited States of Molecules, Huygens Laboratorium, Leyden, The Netherlands
Abstract:
We have measured the spin—lattice relaxation rates in the phosphorescent triplet state To of naphthalene in durene as a function of the direction of the magnetic field. The orientational dependence of the relaxation is explained by thermal activation to a close lying local phonon state where the spin axes are rotated with respect to those in To.