Bloeß, Andreas

Durand, Yannig

Groenen, Edgar J.J.

Köhler, Jürgen

Oijen, Antoine M. van

Schmidt, Jan

English

We report the spectroscopic observation of single pentacene molecules in the matrices n-tetradecane and n-hexadecane, using a confocal microscope operating at liquid-helium temperatures. A maximum detected photon emission rate of only 30 counts per second (cps) is found for pentacene in n-hexadecane and 160 cps for pentacene in n-tetradecane. For the latter system, the low count rate is shown to be caused by a high S1 → T1 intersystem crossing yield of about 40% in combination with a triplet lifetime of 33±3 µs. Pentacene molecules in this polycrystalline host are found to show little spectral diffusion on a timescale of seconds

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An optical study of single pentacene molecules in n-tetradecane

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An optical study of single pentacene molecules in n-tetradecane

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