Energy transfer, photoluminescence

In photoluminescence one measures physical and chemical properties of materials by using photons to induce excited electronic states in the material system and analyzing the optical emission as these states relax. Typically, light is directed onto the sample for excitation, and the emitted luminescence is collected by a lens and passed through an optical spectrometer onto a photodetector. The spectral distribution and time dependence of the emission are related to electronic transition probabilities within the sample, and can be used to provide qualitative and, sometimes, quantitative information about chemical composition, structure (bonding, disorder, interfaces, quantum wells), impurities, kinetic processes, and energy transfer. 

Figure 17.12 (A) Schematic presentation of deactivation and energy transfer processes in a single quantum dot placed on an Ag nanoparticle film. (B) Photoluminescence intensity trajectories of single quantum dots on a glass substrate (a) and on an Ag nanoparticle film (b). The traces in green represent background intensities. (C) Photoluminescence spectra of quantum dot solutions in the presence of...

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Another class of red dopants, tetraphenylporphyrins (63), offer a direct energy transfer from blue to red [151], The absorption bands comprise the sharp porphyrin Soret band at 418 nm and the weaker Q bands at 512 and 550 nm. The photoluminescence shows two sharp transitions at 653 and 714 nm and can be induced from a blue emitting host by Forster transfer to the Soret band and internal conversion to the Q bands. 

FRET interactions are typically characterized by either steady-state or transient fluorescence emission signals from the donor or acceptor species. Efficient nonradiative energy transfer results in donor PL loss associated with acceptor gain in photoluminescence intensity (if the acceptor is an emitter). The rate of this energy transfer is related to the intrinsic lifetime of the isolated donor and depends strongly on the donor-acceptor separation distance ... 

Medintz, I. L., S. A. Trammell, H. Mattoussi, and J. M. Mauro. Reversible modulation of quantum dot photoluminescence using a protein-bound photochromic fluorescence resonance energy transfer acceptor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 30-31 (2004). 

The Effect of Oxygen of Photoluminescence and Resonance Energy Transfer in Copper (I) Y Zeolite... 

The Cu ions have a weak absorption spectrum that partially overlaps with the emission band of Cu, resulting in resonant energy transfer. In fact the time course of oxygen chemisorption could be followed by monitoring the Cu1 photoluminescence quantum efficiency with the time of exposure of Cu Y to oxygen. 

Combined with photoemission, DRS provides quantitative data on excitation-luminescence behavior of powdered specimens which can be used to determine photoluminescence quantum efficiencies and the extent of resonant energy transfer among the bulk and surface activators and sensitizers. 

Highly efficient green photoluminescence has also been realized from SCPs. Copolymers 11 (Fig. 5) derived from 2,7-fluorene and 2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole show absolute PL quantum yields up to 84%.28 A well-defined alternating copolymer 12 with a repeating unit made up of ter-(2,7-fluorene) and 2,5-silole possesses an absolute PL quantum yield >80%.29 SCPs 13 with a main chain structure of 3,6-carbazole-2,7-fluorene-2,5-silole also show absolute PL quantum yields up to 86%.30 An energy transfer copolymer 14 of 2,7-dibenzosilole and... 

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