Stimulated emission properties of sterically modified distyrylbenzene-based H-aggregate single crystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1597-1602

  Varghese, Shinto ^a   Park, Sang Kyu ^b   Casado, Santiago ^a   Fischer, Roland C ^c   Resel, Roland ^d   Milián Medina, Begoña ^a   Wannemacher, Reinhold ^a   Park, Soo Young ^b   Gierschner, Johannes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

crystal structure; H aggregates; solid state fluorescence; stimulated emission

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ORGANIC MOLECULES; H-AGGREGATES; J AGGREGATIONS; LIGHT AMPLIFICATION; SOLID-STATE FLUORESCENCE;

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84878032982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400659b     Document Type: Article

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