Large spectral diffusion of conjugated polymer single molecule fluorescence at low temperature

Oleg Mirzov; Tönu Pullerits; F Cichos; C von Borczyskowski; Ivan Scheblykin

doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2005.04.044

Large spectral diffusion of conjugated polymer single molecule fluorescence at low temperature

Oleg Mirzov, Tönu Pullerits, F Cichos, C von Borczyskowski, Ivan Scheblykin

Chemical Physics

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The conductive polymer poly(2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4- phenylene vinylene) (MEH-PPV) was investigated by means of single molecule spectroscopy at 15 K. MEH-PPV single chains were deposited onto a surface from a toluene solution and covered with a polymer cap layer spin-coated from an aqueous solution for protection from air. The MEH-PPV molecules exhibited large fluorescence spectral diffusion with the range reaching 1000 cm(-1). We concluded that conformational changes, affecting dispersive interactions and conjugation length, is the most probable mechanism of the observed effect. It is the matrix-free environment that allows the MEH-PPV chains to undergo sufficiently large conformational changes even at low temperature. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	317-321
Journal	Chemical Physics Letters
Volume	408
Issue number	4-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2005.04.044
Publication status	Published - 2005

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Large spectral diffusion of conjugated polymer single molecule fluorescence at low temperature

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