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Picosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectra of a liquid crystal: Fluorescence behavior related to phase transitions in cyanooctyloxybiphenyl

✍ Scribed by Naoto Tamai; Iwao Yamazaki; Hiroshi Masuhara; Noboru Mataga


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Weight
369 KB
Volume
104
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2614

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✦ Synopsis


The fluorescence characteristics of a liquid crystal, 4cyano_4_n'-octyloxybiphenyl, were examined as a function of temperature. In the smectic A, nematic and isotropic liquid phases, picosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectra exhibit a monomer-like spectrum immediately after the pulsed excitation, follov..ed by excimer-like fluorescence after 200-300 ps. The crystalline phase emits only monomer-like fluorescence.