Breakdown of the mirror image symmetry in the optical absorption/emission spectra of oligo(para-phenylene)s

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Heimel, Georg ^a,b   Daghofer, Maria ^b   Gierschner, Johannes ^c   List, Emil J W ^b,d   Grimsdale, Andrew C ^e   Müllen, Klaus ^e   Beljonne, David ^f   Brédas, Jean Luc ^a   Zojer, Egbert ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; FRANCK-CONDON TREATMENT; ORGANIC MOLECULES; VIBRONIC STRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 23044438003     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1839574     Document Type: Article

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