The hydrostatic pressure-induced shift of the zero-phonon line of single pentacene molecules in a pterphenyl host crystal was studied at cryogenic temperatures. Five molecules in the inhomogeneously broadened &t-S, absorption band of the O1 site (592.32 nm) were selected. In the low-pressure regime
Pressure effects on single molecules of terrylene in p-terphenyl
✍ Scribed by A. Müller; W. Richter; L. Kador
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 619 KB
- Volume
- 241
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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✦ Synopsis
The hydrostatic-pressure shift of the zero-phonon lines of single terrylene molecules in a p-terphenyl host crystal was measured at 1.6 K. We found four inhomogeneous absorption bands of the terrylene molecules in p-terphenyl with inhomogeneous widths between 15 and 33 GHz, corresponding to four crystal sites, and we measured the pressure shift of single molecules in the sites X2, X3, and X4. All the molecules investigated (35 in total) exhibited a linear and reversible red-shift with increasing pressure, with magnitudes between -0.92 and -1.48 MHz/hPa. The pressure shift parameter was found to be independent of the spectral position of the molecules.
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