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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Observation of Ligand-Centred Fluorescence and Intramolecular Relaxation at Sub-Vibrational Time Scales

Enrico PomaricoFabrizio MessinaMajed CherguiMahsa SilataniEtienne Baranoff

subject

PhotoluminescenceMaterials scienceInfraredIntramolecular forceRelaxation (physics)LuminescenceMolecular physicsFluorescencePhoton upconversionFluorescence spectroscopy

description

Using broadband photoluminescence upconversion, we observe fluorescence from a high-lying ligand-centred state in Ir(ppy)3. This result allows us to clock the electronic relaxation to the lowest 3MLCT state, occurring at sub-vibrational time scales.

https://doi.org/10.1364/up.2016.uth3b.4