Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Direct observation of exciton–exciton interactions

  • Jakub Dostál,
  • Franziska Fennel,
  • Federico Koch,
  • Stefanie Herbst,
  • Frank Würthner,
  • Tobias Brixner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04884-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Some photo-physical processes in multichromophore systems might get triggered only if two excitations are present. Here, the authors introduce exciton–exciton-interaction 2D spectroscopy, which is a non-linear optical method that can selectively track the time evolution of such effects.