Light-driven and phonon-assisted dynamics in organic and semiconductor nanostructures

S Kilina, D Kilin, S Tretiak - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Rapid advances in chemical synthesis and fabrication techniques have led to a boost in
manufacturing and design of novel nanostructured materials that exhibit unique and often …

Measuring the Exciton Binding Energy: Learning from a Decade of Measurements on Halide Perovskites and Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

KR Hansen, JS Colton… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The exciton binding energy (Eb) is a key parameter that governs the physics of many
optoelectronic devices. At their best, trustworthy and precise measurements of Eb challenge …

Nonadiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics: Treatment of electronic decoherence

T Nelson, S Fernandez-Alberti, AE Roitberg… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Within the fewest switches surface hopping (FSSH) formulation, a swarm of independent
trajectories is propagated and the equations of motion for the quantum coefficients are …

Experimental determination of the charge/neutral branching ratio in the photoexcitation of -conjugated polymers by broadband ultrafast spectroscopy

CX Sheng, M Tong, S Singh, ZV Vardeny - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2007 - APS
We demonstrate a long-sought reliable method for determining the important branching ratio
η between photogenerated charged polarons and neutral excitons in π-conjugated polymer …

Emissive brightening in molecular graphene nanoribbons by twilight states

BK Sturdza, F Kong, X Yao, W Niu, J Ma, X Feng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Carbon nanomaterials are expected to be bright and efficient emitters, but structural
disorder, intermolecular interactions and the intrinsic presence of dark states suppress their …

Role of Bright and Dark Excitons in the Temperature-Dependent Photoluminescence<? format?> of Carbon Nanotubes

IB Mortimer, RJ Nicholas - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We report studies of the temperature dependence of the photoluminescence efficiency of
single walled carbon nanotubes which demonstrate the role of bright and dark excitons. This …

Spectroelectrochemistry of carbon nanostructures

L Kavan, L Dunsch - ChemPhysChem, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This review is focused on charge‐transfer reactions at carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.
The spectroelectrochemistry of fullerenes deals with the spin states of fullerenes, the role of …

Insights into excitons confined to nanoscale systems: electron–hole interaction, binding energy, and photodissociation

GD Scholes - ACS nano, 2008 - ACS Publications
The characteristics of nanoscale excitons the primary excited states of nanoscale systems
like conjugated polymers, molecular aggregates, carbon nanotubes, and nanocrystalline …

Triplet state absorption in carbon nanotubes: a TD− DFT study

S Tretiak - Nano Letters, 2007 - ACS Publications
We predict properties of triplet excited states in single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
using a time-dependent density-functional theory (TD− DFT). We show that the lowest triplet …

Ultrafast intersystem-crossing in platinum containing π-conjugated polymers with tunable spin-orbit coupling

CX Sheng, S Singh, A Gambetta, T Drori, M Tong… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
The development of efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and organic photovoltaic
cells requires control over the dynamics of spin sensitive excitations. Embedding heavy …