Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Picosecond time-resolved photon antibunching measures nanoscale exciton motion and the true number of chromophores

  • Gordon J. Hedley,
  • Tim Schröder,
  • Florian Steiner,
  • Theresa Eder,
  • Felix J. Hofmann,
  • Sebastian Bange,
  • Dirk Laux,
  • Sigurd Höger,
  • Philip Tinnefeld,
  • John M. Lupton,
  • Jan Vogelsang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21474-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Photon antibunching typically measures the time-averaged photophysics of multichromophoric nanoparticles. Here, the authors report on time-resolving photon antibunching, allowing the true number of chromophores and exciton diffusion to be measured in DNA origami and conjugated polymer aggregates.