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Influence of Excited‐State Absorption on Time‐Resolved Luminescence: General Formalism and Application to the Phosphorescence of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Author(s) -
Palmeira Tiago,
Fedorov Alexander,
BerberanSantos Mário N.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.201402695
Subject(s) - phosphorescence , triphenylene , coronene , excited state , luminescence , chemistry , absorption (acoustics) , photochemistry , excitation , triplet state , molecule , atomic physics , materials science , fluorescence , optics , optoelectronics , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
The luminescence decay of a species in an absorbing medium whose optical thickness changes with time, as occurs with triplet–triplet absorption following excitation cut‐off, is studied theoretically and experimentally. A general luminescence decay function based on a distribution of optical thicknesses is presented. A simple decay function previously used empirically is shown to result from an exponential distribution of optical thicknesses. The general approach introduced allows the adequate description of the phosphorescence decays of two polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, coronene and triphenylene (normal and perdeuterated forms for both molecules), in polymer films in the presence of excited‐state absorption.