Relaxation processes in molecular excited states

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Relaxation processes in molecular excited states

edited by J. Fünfschilling

(Physics and chemistry of materials with low-dimensional structures, series C . Molecular structure)

Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1989

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Relaxation phenomena of excited molecular states are abundant in all nature. They mediate such key processes as photochemical reactions or even the pathways of ordinary chemical reactions. However, for a long time the main research in electronic relaxation processes was concerned with anorganic solids, in part because of their great technological importance (photography, semiconductors ... ) in part also because these compounds were the "workhorses" of the solid state physicists. In the last 30 years, there was a steadily increasing interest in organic molecular systems, first in molecular crystals and later in all forms of molecular solids (glasses, polymers, membranes, ... ). The present volume combines papers on quite different types of relaxation phenomena: the type of solid studied, the electronic states involved, the physical processes responsible for the relaxations are all different. Nevertheless, after reading this book, a more clear and complete picture of the phenomenon "relaxa­ tion" emerges that proves that this volume is more than just a collection of individual articles. The volume starts with the paper "Spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation in photo-excited triplet states in molecular crystals" by Jan Schmidt. Even in these seemingly simple systems of isolated guest molecules in a single crystal host, the relaxation phenomena are quite involved and a very thorough investigation is necessary to find the key relaxation processes. The end of the article provides a bridge to the following paper: it treats interactions of two molecules (dimers), where resonant interactions become important and lead to new, characteristic relaxation processes.

Table of Contents

Spin-Lattice and Spin-Spin Relaxation in Photo-Excited Triplet States in Molecular Crystals.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Theoretical Model.- 3. Experimental.- 4. Experimental Studies on Spin-Lattice and Spin-Spin Relaxation in Triplet State Molecules in Chemically Mixed Crystals.- 5. Experimental Studies on Spin-Lattice and Spin-Spin Relaxation in the Triplet State of Naphthalene Dimers.- 6. Conclusions.- 7. Acknowledgement.- The Dynamics of One-Dimensional Triplet Excitons in Molecular Crystals.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Review of the Recent Literature.- 3. Triplet Excitons.- 4. The Systems TCB and p-DCB.- 5. Experimental.- 6. The Dynamic Properties of Triplet Excitons in TCB.- 7. The Dynamical Properties of Triplet Excitons in p-DCB.- 8. Summary.- 9. Acknowledgement.- Spectral Hole-Burning in Crystalline and Amorphous Organic Solids. Optical Relaxation Processes at Low Temperature.- 1. Introduction to Hole-Burning.- 2. Experimental.- 3. Organic Systems Studied.- 4. Applications.- 5. Summary and Conclusions.- 6. Acknowledgements.- Relaxation Theory Applied to Scattering of Excitations and Optical Transitions in Crystals and Solids.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Theory.- 3. Relaxation and Scattering of Excitations at Low Temperature.- 4. Optical Hole-Burning in Glasses and Crystals.- 5. Concluding Remarks.

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