A single-molecule study of the relation between the resonance frequency and the orientation of a guest molecule in a Shpol'skii system

Author(s):
Bloess, A.; Durand, Y.; Matsushita, M.; Schmidt, J.; Groenen, E.J.J. (0000-0001-7530-9211)
Published
2001
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

An optical single-molecule study is reported of a quickly frozen solution of 2.3,8.9-dibenzanthanthrene (DBATT) in n-tetradecane at 1.4 K. The orientation has been measured of several hundreds of DBATT molecules within a confocal detection volume of similar to 10 mum(3) as a function of their resonance frequency in the range of the two 0-0 bands in the fluorescence-excitation spectrum. Each band is found to correspond to a distinct distribution of orientations of DBATT molecules. A particular resonance frequency within a band is not correlated with a specific molecular orientation. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Date issued
2001-08-17
Language
English
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Is part of
Chemical Physics Letters (2001), Vol. 344, no. 1-2, p. 55-60
hdl
1887/3590362
doi
10.1016/S0009-2614(01)00770-9
URL
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009261401007709?via%3Dihub