Single Photon Emission from a Dendrimer Containing Eight Perylene Diimide Chromophores

Toby D. M. Bell; Satoshi Habuchi; Sadahiro Masuo; Ingo Österling; Klaus Müllen; Phillip Tinnefeld; Markus Sauer; Mark van der Auweraer; Johan Hofkens; Frans C. De Schryver

doi:10.1071/CH04133

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Single Photon Emission from a Dendrimer Containing Eight Perylene Diimide Chromophores

Toby D. M. Bell ^A , Satoshi Habuchi ^A , Sadahiro Masuo ^A ^D , Ingo Österling ^B , Klaus Müllen ^B , Phillip Tinnefeld ^C , Markus Sauer ^C , Mark van der Auweraer ^A , Johan Hofkens ^A ^E and Frans C. De Schryver ^A ^E

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^A Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium.

^B Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, 55128 Mainz, Germany.

^C Fakultät für Physik, Angewandte Laserphysik, und Laserspektroskopie, Universität Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.

^D Current address: Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.

^E Corresponding authors. Email: Frans.Deschryver@chem.kuleuven.ac.be; Johan.Hofkens@chem.kuleuven.ac.be

Australian Journal of Chemistry 57(12) 1169-1173 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH04133
Submitted: 21 May 2004 Accepted: 19 August 2004 Published: 8 December 2004

Abstract

A novel dendrimer containing eight perylene diimide chromophores has been synthesized and studied by ensemble and single-molecule spectroscopic techniques. Photon anti-bunching (coincidence) measurements on single molecules embedded in zeonex polymer films show that the dendrimer behaves as a deterministic (triggered) single photon source with only one fluorescence photon being emitted following pulsed laser excitation, even when more than one chromophore is excited. This behaviour is due to efficient singlet–singlet annihilation being operative in this dendrimer. Preliminary results indicate that the triplet lifetime and yield for this molecule are similar to the values for a molecule containing a single perylene diimide chromophore.

Acknowledgements

T.D.M.B. and S.M. gratefully acknowledge KU Leuven for post-doctoral fellowships. Financial support from the FWO, the Federal Science Policy through IUAP-5–30, the Flemish Ministry of Education through GOA/1/2001, the German Federal Ministry of Technology, the German Science Foundation, and a Max Planck research award is acknowledged.

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^* Sufficient power is required to ensure a high proportion of multiple excitations.

^† For example, intersystem crossing from S_n to T_n could compete with the second step in Eqn (1), leading to an increase in the triplet yield.

Single Photon Emission from a Dendrimer Containing Eight Perylene Diimide Chromophores

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