Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2004-03-26
J. Chem. Phys. 121, 4884 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
26 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1778136
We theoretically study the trapping time distribution and the efficiency of the excitation energy transport in dendritic systems. Trapping of excitations, created at the periphery of the dendrimer, on a trap located at its core, is used as a probe of the efficiency of the energy transport across the dendrimer. The transport process is treated as incoherent hopping of excitations between nearest-neighbor dendrimer units and is described using a rate equation. We account for radiative and non-radiative decay of the excitations while diffusing across the dendrimer. We derive exact expressions for the Laplace transform of the trapping time distribution and the efficiency of trapping and analyze those for various realizations of the energy bias, number of dendrimer generations, and relative rates for decay and hopping. We show that the essential parameter that governs the trapping efficiency, is the product of the on-site excitation decay rate and the trapping time (mean first passage time) in the absence of decay.
Heijs Dirk-Jan
Knoester Jasper
Malyshev Victor A.
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