Single-molecule probing of incommensurate biphenyl

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  • M. Pärs* Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Riia 142, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
  • V. Palm Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Riia 142, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
  • J. Kikas Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Riia 142, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3432262

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single-molecule spectroscopy, single-molecule linewidth distribution, two-level systems, incommensurate biphenyl, terrylene.

Анотація

Our data on the distribution of purely-electronic linewidths of terrylene single molecules in incommensurate biphenyl crystals are compared with the data of other groups for different low-temperature organic solid hosts and with results of numerical simulations. The first two moments of the distributions measured within a narrow temperature interval have been used to calculate a single dimensionless parameter characterizing each of the respective hosts — the variation coefficient. It appears that different amorphous hosts have similar values of this coefficient, but the value obtained for the incommensurate crystal of biphenyl is significantly different. One can conclude that the remarkable single-molecule line broadening in biphenyl at 1.8 K cannot be solely explained by the interaction with two-level systems, which is considered to cause the broadening in amorphous hosts.

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2010-03-24

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Pärs*, M.; Palm, V.; Kikas, J. Single-Molecule Probing of Incommensurate Biphenyl. Fiz. Nizk. Temp. 2010, 36, 559-562.

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