Single-molecule optical switching of terrylene inp-terphenyl

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6634, 1997, Pages 688-691

  Kulzer, F ^a   Kummer, S ^a   Matzke, R ^a   Brauchle C ^a   Basche Th ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TERPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; GENE SWITCHING; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031007989     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42674     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Eigler, D. M., Lutz, C. P. & Rudge, W. E. An atomic switch realized with the scanning tunnelling microscope. Nature 352, 600-603 (1991).
2. Basché, Th., Moerner, W. E., Orrit, M. & Wild, U. P. (eds) Single-Molecule Optical Detection, Imaging and Spectroscopy (VCH, Weinheim, 1997).
3. Basché, Th. & Moerner, W. E. Optical modification of a single impurity molecule in a solid. Nature 355, 335-337 (1992).
4. Fleury, L., Zumbusch, A., Orrit, M., Brown, R. & Bernard, J. Spectral diffusion and individual two-level systems probed by fluorescence of single terrylene molecules in a polyethylene matrix. J. Lumin. 56, 15-28 (1993).
5. Moerner, W. E. et al. Optical probing of single molecules of terrylene in a Shpol'skii matrix: a two-state single molecule switch. J. Phys. Chem. 98, 7332-7389 (1994).
6. Kummer, S., Basché, Th. & Bräuchle, C. Terrylene in p-terphenyl: a novel single crystalline system for single molecule spectroscopy at low temperatures. Chem. Phys. Lett. 229, 309-316 (1994); Chem. Phys. Lett. 232, 414 (1995).
7. Kummer, S., Basché, Th. & Bräuchle, C. Terrylene in p-terphenyl: a novel single crystalline system for single molecule spectroscopy at low temperatures. Chem. Phys. Lett. 229, 309-316 (1994); Chem. Phys. Lett. 232, 414 (1995).
8. Kador, L., Müller, A. & Richter, W. Single molecule spectrosocpy and persistent hole-burning of terrylene in p-terphenyl: external field effects. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 291, 23-29 (1996).
9. Basché, Th., Kummer, S. & Bräuchle, C. Direct spectroscopic observation of quantum jumps of a single molecule. Nature 373, 132-134 (1995).
10. Moerner, W. E. (ed.) Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning: Science and Application (Springer, Berlin, 1988).
11. Myers, A. B., Tchénio, P., Zgierski, M. Z. & Moerner, W. E. Vibronic spectroscopy of individual molecules in solids. J. Phys. Chem. 98, 10377-10390 (1994).
12. Tchénio, P., Myers, A. B. & Moerner, W. E. Vibrational analysis of the dispersed fluorescence from single molecules of terrylene in polyethylene. Chem. Phys. Lett. 213, 325-332 (1993).
13. Kummer, S. et al. Absorption, excitation and emission spectroscopy of terrylene in p-terphenyl: bulk measurements and single molecule studies. J. Chem. Phys. (submitted).
14. Baudour, J. L., Delugeard, Y. & Cailleau, H. Structure cristalline de la phase basse température du p-terphényle à 113 K. Acta Crystallogr. B 32, 150-154 (1976).
15. Reilly, P. D. & Skinner, J. L. Spectral diffusion of individual pentacene molecules in a p-terphenyl crystal: stochastic theoretical model and analysis of experimental data. J. Chem. Phys. 102, 1540-1552 (1995).
16. Ambrose, W. P. & Moerner, W. E. Fluorescence spectroscopy and spectral diffusion of single impurity molecules in a crystal. Nature 349, 225-227 (1991).