Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2011-08-24
Semiconductors and Semimetals 85, 47 (2011)
Physics
Chemical Physics
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The theoretical description and the properties of Frenkel excitons in non-covalently bonded molecular aggregates are reviewed from a multi-exciton perspective of dissipative quantum dynamics. First, the photophysical and quantum chemical characterization of the monomeric dye building blocks is discussed, including the important aspect of electron-vibrational coupling within the Huang-Rhys model. Supplementing the model by the Coulombic interactions between monomers, the description of aggregates in terms of excitonic or vibrational-excitonic bands follows. Besides of giving rise to complex absorption and emission line shapes, exciton-vibrational interaction is responsible for energy and phase relaxation and thereby limits the size of coherent excitations in larger aggregates. Throughout, emphasis is put on the electronic three-level model as a minimum requirement to describe nonlinear spectroscopies including effects of two-exciton states such as excited state absorption and exciton-exciton annihilation. The experimentally observed characteristics of stationary absorption and fluorescence spectra of aggregates as well as their temperature dependence are discussed. Examples for ultrafast spectroscopic experiments including pump-probe studies, photon echo and two-dimensional spectroscopy are presented and results on the size of coherence domains and on intra- and interband relaxation are given. Finally, experimental signatures for exciton-exciton annihilation and their analysis with respect to the mobility of excitons are described.
Kühn Oliver
Lochbrunner Stefan
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