Matrix-induced linear Stark effect of single dibenzoterrylene molecules in 2,3-dibromonaphthalene crystal

Absorption and fluorescence from single molecules can be tuned by applying an external electric field – a phenomenon known as the Stark effect. A linear Stark effect is associated to a lack of centrosymmetry of the guest in the host matrix. Centrosymmetric guests can display a linear Stark effect in disordered matrices, but the response of individual guest molecules is often relatively weak and non‐uniform, with a broad distribution of the Stark coefficients. Here we introduce a novel single‐molecule host‐guest system, dibenzoterrylene (DBT) in 2,3‐dibromonaphthalene (DBN) crystal. Fluorescent DBT molecules show excellent spectral stability with a large linear Stark effect, of the order of 1.5 GHz/kVcm−1, corresponding to an electric dipole moment change of around 2 D. Remarkably, when the electric field is aligned with the a crystal axis, nearly all DBT molecules show either positive or negative Stark shifts with similar absolute values. These results are consistent with quantum chemistry calculations. Those indicate that DBT substitutes three DBN molecules along the a‐axis, giving rise to eight equivalent embedding sites, related by the three glide planes of the orthorhombic crystal. The static dipole moment of DBT molecules is created by host‐induced breaking of the inversion symmetry. This new host–guest system is promising for applications that require a high sensitivity of fluorescent emitters to electric fields, for example to probe weak electric fields

Reverse intersystem crossing of single deuterated perylene molecules in a dibenzothiophene matrix

Biological and Soft Matter Physic

Single molecules detect ultra-slow oscillators in a molecular crystal excited by ac-voltages

Biological and Soft Matter Physic

L\'evy Distribution of Single Molecule Line Shape Cumulants in Low Temperature Glass

We investigate the distribution of single molecule line shape cumulants, $\kappa_1,\kappa_2,...$, in low temperature glasses based on the sudden jump, standard tunneling model. We find that the cumulants are described by L\'evy stable laws, thus generalized central limit theorem is applicable for this problem.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

SINGLE-MOLECULE LINES AND SPECTRAL HOLE-BURNING OF TERRYLENE IN DIFFERENT MATRICES

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SINGLE-MOLECULE LINES AND SPECTRAL HOLE-BURNING OF TERRYLENE IN DIFFERENT MATRICES

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SINGLE-MOLECULE LINES AND SPECTRAL HOLE-BURNING OF TERRYLENE IN DIFFERENT MATRICES

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Spectroscopy and Photophysics of Monoazaphenanthrenes III. Luminescence of Phenanthridine and 7,8-benzoquinoline in Crystalline State

Fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra and the decay profiles of both these emissions have been investigated for the polycrystals of phenanthridine and 7,8-benzoquinoline, in the liquid helium (5 K) - room temperature range. These two monoazaderivatives of phenanthrene, which differ only by the position of N-heteroatom in the aromatic ring skeleton of phenanthrene, were found to exhibit very different fluorescence spectra, which also differ greatly in their temperature behavior. Supplementary investigations of the fluorescence of single crystals of 7,8-benzoquinoline have supported classification of observed fluorescence as an excimer fluorescence (caused by the specific arrangement of molecules of 7,8-benzoquinoline in the crystal). In contrary fluorescence of phenanthridine crystals is of the monomeric type. Phosphorescence spectra observed for the crystals of both molecules are very similar, but their temperature dependence is also different. This may be considered as an indication of a different physical mechanism of nonradiative intersystem crossing processes, which are operating between the lowest excited singlet state and the lowest excited triplet state in the crystals of both molecules

Spectroscopy and Photophysics of Monoazaphenanthrenes III. Luminescence of Phenanthridine and 7,8-benzoquinoline in Crystalline State

Fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra and the decay profiles of both these emissions have been investigated for the polycrystals of phenanthridine and 7,8-benzoquinoline, in the liquid helium (5 K) - room temperature range. These two monoazaderivatives of phenanthrene, which differ only by the position of N-heteroatom in the aromatic ring skeleton of phenanthrene, were found to exhibit very different fluorescence spectra, which also differ greatly in their temperature behavior. Supplementary investigations of the fluorescence of single crystals of 7,8-benzoquinoline have supported classification of observed fluorescence as an excimer fluorescence (caused by the specific arrangement of molecules of 7,8-benzoquinoline in the crystal). In contrary fluorescence of phenanthridine crystals is of the monomeric type. Phosphorescence spectra observed for the crystals of both molecules are very similar, but their temperature dependence is also different. This may be considered as an indication of a different physical mechanism of nonradiative intersystem crossing processes, which are operating between the lowest excited singlet state and the lowest excited triplet state in the crystals of both molecules