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The coherent exchange of energy between materials and optical fields leads to strong light-matter interactions and so-called polaritonic states with intriguing properties, halfway between light and matter. Two decades ago, research on these strong light-matter interactions, using optical cavity (vacuum) fields, remained for the most part the province of the physicist, with a focus on inorganic materials requiring cryogenic temperatures and carefully fabricated, high-quality optical cavities for their study. This review explores the history and recent acceleration of interest in the application of polaritonic states to molecular properties and processes. The enormous collective oscillator strength of dense films of organic molecules, aggregates, and materials allows cavity vacuum field strong coupling to be achieved at room temperature, even in rapidly fabricated, highly lossy metallic optical cavities. This has put polaritonic states and their associated coherent phenomena at the fingertips of laboratory chemists, materials scientists, and even biochemists as a potentially new tool to control molecular chemistry. The exciting phenomena that have emerged suggest that polaritonic states are of genuine relevance within the molecular and material energy landscape.
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- Kenji Hirai
- Division of Photonics and Optical Science, Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, North 20 West 10, Kita ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan
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- School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, The University of Melbourne, Masson Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
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- Division of Photonics and Optical Science, Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, North 20 West 10, Kita ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Heverlee Leuven Belgium
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Zhang B, Shuai Z. Detuning Effects on the Reverse Intersystem Crossing from Triplet Exciton to Lower Polariton. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:9279-9286. [PMID: 36173356 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The lower polariton (LP) can reduce the energy barrier of the reverse intersystem crossing (rISC) process from T1 to harvest triplet energy for fluorescence. Based on a Tavis-Cummings model including both singlet and triplet excitons, both coupled with quantized photons, we derive here a comprehensive rISC rate formalism. We found that the latter consists of three contributions: the one originated from spin-orbit coupling as first obtained by Martinez-Martinez et al. ( J. Chem. Phys. 2019, 151, 054106), the one from light-matter coupling of Ou et al. ( J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 17786), and the cross-term first reported here. We apply the formalism to investigate the experimentally observed barrier-free rISC (BFrISC) process in cavity devices with DABNA-2 molecular thin film. We found it can be attributed to the detuning effect. The rISC rates can be increased by orders of magnitude through changing the detuning energy to realize the BFrISC process. In addition, the BFrISC rates exhibit a maximum as a function of the incident angle and the doping concentration. The formalism provides a solid ground for molecular design toward highly efficient cavity-promoted light-emitting materials.
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- Bin Zhang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P R China
- School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 517128, P R China
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Pannir-Sivajothi S, Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo JA, Martínez-Martínez LA, Sinha S, Yuen-Zhou J. Driving chemical reactions with polariton condensates. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1645. [PMID: 35347131 PMCID: PMC8960839 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29290-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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When molecular transitions strongly couple to photon modes, they form hybrid light-matter modes called polaritons. Collective vibrational strong coupling is a promising avenue for control of chemistry, but this can be deterred by the large number of quasi-degenerate dark modes. The macroscopic occupation of a single polariton mode by excitations, as observed in Bose-Einstein condensation, offers promise for overcoming this issue. Here we theoretically investigate the effect of vibrational polariton condensation on the kinetics of electron transfer processes. Compared with excitation with infrared laser sources, the vibrational polariton condensate changes the reaction yield significantly at room temperature due to additional channels with reduced activation barriers resulting from the large accumulation of energy in the lower polariton, and the many modes available for energy redistribution during the reaction. Our results offer tantalizing opportunities to use condensates for driving chemical reactions, kinetically bypassing usual constraints of fast intramolecular vibrational redistribution in condensed phase.
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- Sindhana Pannir-Sivajothi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
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Shishkov VY, Andrianov ES, Zasedatelev AV, Lagoudakis PG, Lozovik YE. Exact Analytical Solution for the Density Matrix of a Nonequilibrium Polariton Bose-Einstein Condensate. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:065301. [PMID: 35213178 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.065301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this Letter, we give an analytical quantum description of a nonequilibrium polariton Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) based on the solution of the master equation for the full polariton density matrix in the limit of fast thermalization. We find the density matrix of a nonequilibrium BEC, that takes into account quantum correlations between all polariton states. We show that the formation of BEC is accompanied by the build-up of cross-correlations between the ground state and the excited states reaching their highest values at the condensation threshold. Despite the nonequilibrium nature of polariton systems, we show the average population of polariton states exhibits the Bose-Einstein distribution with an almost zero effective chemical potential above the condensation threshold similar to an equilibrium BEC. We demonstrate that above threshold the effective temperature of polaritons drops below the reservoir temperature.
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- Vladislav Yu Shishkov
- Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy pereulok, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow region, Russia; and Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy pereulok, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow region, Russia; and Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Spectroscopy RAS, 5 Fizicheskaya, Troitsk 142190, Russia; Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia; Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia; and Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia
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Yuen-Zhou J, Xiong W, Shegai T. Polariton chemistry: Molecules in cavities and plasmonic media. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:030401. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0080134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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- Joel Yuen-Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 41296, Sweden
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Ou Q, Shao Y, Shuai Z. Enhanced Reverse Intersystem Crossing Promoted by Triplet Exciton-Photon Coupling. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:17786-17792. [PMID: 34644062 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c08881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Polaritons are hybrid light-matter states formed via strong coupling between excitons and photons inside a microcavity, leading to upper and lower polariton (LP) bands splitting from the exciton. The LP has been applied to reduce the energy barrier of the reverse intersystem crossing (rISC) process from T1, harvesting triplet energy for fluorescence through thermally activated delayed fluorescence. The spin-orbit coupling between T1 and the excitonic part of the LP was considered as the origin for such an rISC transition. Here we propose a mechanism, namely, rISC promoted by the light-matter coupling (LMC) between T1 and the photonic part of LP, which is originated from the ISC-induced transition dipole moment of T1. This mechanism was excluded in previous studies. Our calculations demonstrate that the experimentally observed enhancement to the rISC process of the erythrosine B molecule can be effectively promoted by the LMC between T1 and a photon. The proposed mechanism would substantially broaden the scope of the molecular design toward highly efficient cavity-promoted light-emitting materials and immediately benefit the illumination of related experimental phenomena.
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- Qi Ou
- MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Ramezani M, Halpin A, Wang S, Berghuis M, Rivas JG. Ultrafast Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Organic Exciton-Polariton Condensates. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:8590-8596. [PMID: 31670967 PMCID: PMC6909230 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Revised: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Exciton-polariton condensation in organic materials, arising from the coupling of Frenkel excitons to the electromagnetic field in cavities, is a phenomenon resulting in low-threshold coherent light emission among other fascinating properties. The exact mechanisms leading to the thermalization of organic exciton-polaritons toward condensation are not yet understood, partly due to the complexity of organic molecules and partly to the canonical microcavities used in condensation studies, which limit broadband studies. Here, we exploit an entirely different cavity design, i.e., an array of plasmonic nanoparticles strongly coupled to organic molecules, to successfully measure the broadband ultrafast dynamics of the strongly coupled system. Sharp features emerge in the transient spectrum originating from the formation of a condensate with a well-defined molecular vibrational composition. These measurements represent the first direct experimental evidence that molecular vibrations drive condensation in organic systems and provide a benchmark for modeling the dynamics of organic-based exciton-polariton condensates.
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Hertzog M, Wang M, Mony J, Börjesson K. Strong light-matter interactions: a new direction within chemistry. Chem Soc Rev 2019; 48:937-961. [PMID: 30662987 PMCID: PMC6365945 DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00193f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Strong light–matter coupling enables the possibility of changing the properties of molecules, without modifying their chemical structures, thus enabling a completely new way to study chemistry and explore materials.
It is possible to modify the chemical and physical properties of molecules, not only through chemical modifications but also by coupling molecules strongly to light. More intriguingly, strong coupling between molecules and light is possible even without the presence of a photon. The phenomenon that makes this possible is called vacuum fluctuations, which is the finite zero point energy of the quantized electromagnetic field inside an optical cavity. The light–matter coupling, which can be as large as 1 eV (100 kJ mol–1), leads to the formation of new hybrid states, called polaritons. The formed hybrid states can be viewed as a linear combination of light (vacuum field) and matter (molecules), thus completely changing the energy landscape of the system. Using vacuum fluctuations, strong light–matter interactions have for instance been used to change chemical reactivity, charge conductivity, excited state relaxation pathways and rates of chemical reactions of organic molecules. In this review a brief history of the field is given, followed by a theoretical framework, methods of analysis, and a review of accomplishments. Finally, a personal reflection on the future perspectives and applications within this field is given.
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- Manuel Hertzog
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Kemigården 4, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Yuen-Zhou J, Saikin SK, Menon VM. Molecular Emission near Metal Interfaces: The Polaritonic Regime. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:6511-6516. [PMID: 30372085 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The strong coupling of a dense layer of molecular excitons with surface-plasmon modes in a metal gives rise to polaritons (hybrid light-matter states) called plexcitons. Surface plasmons cannot directly emit into (or be excited by) free-space photons due to the fact that energy and momentum conservation cannot be simultaneously satisfied in photoluminescence. Most plexcitons are also formally nonemissive, even though they can radiate via molecules upon localization due to disorder and decoherence. However, a fraction of them are bright even in the presence of such deleterious processes. In this Letter, we theoretically discuss the superradiant emission properties of these bright plexcitons, which belong to the upper energy branch and reveal huge photoluminescence enhancements compared to bare excitons, due to near-divergences in the density of photonic modes available to them. Our study generalizes the well-known problem of molecular emission next to a metal interface to the polaritonic regime.
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- Joel Yuen-Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of California San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States
- Institute of Physics , Kazan Federal University , Kazan 420008 , Russian Federation
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- Department of Physics, Graduate Center and City College of New York , City University of New York , New York , New York 10016 , United States
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Meskers SCJ, Lakhwani G. Reflection of light by anisotropic molecular crystals including exciton-polaritons and spatial dispersion. J Chem Phys 2017; 145:194703. [PMID: 27875898 DOI: 10.1063/1.4967404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A theory for the reflection of light by molecular crystals is described, which reproduces the minimum within the reflection band that is observed experimentally. The minimum in reflection is related to the excitation of polaritons in the crystal. The theory involves reformulation of the boundary conditions for electromagnetic waves at the interface between vacuum and material. The material is modeled by a cubic lattice of oriented Lorentz oscillators. By requiring uniformity of gauge of the electromagnetic potential across the interface between vacuum and the dipole lattice, the need for additional boundary conditions is obviated. The frequency separation between the maxima in reflectance on both sides of the minimum allows for the extraction of a plasma frequency. The plasma frequencies extracted from reflection spectra are compared to the plasma frequencies calculated directly from structural data on the crystals and the oscillator strengths of the constituent molecules. A good agreement between extracted and calculated plasma frequency is obtained for a set of 11 dye molecules.
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- Stefan C J Meskers
- Molecular Materials and Nanosystems and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Yuen-Zhou J, Saikin SK, Zhu T, Onbasli MC, Ross CA, Bulovic V, Baldo MA. Plexciton Dirac points and topological modes. Nat Commun 2016; 7:11783. [PMID: 27278258 PMCID: PMC4906226 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Plexcitons are polaritonic modes that result from the strong coupling between excitons and plasmons. Here, we consider plexcitons emerging from the interaction of excitons in an organic molecular layer with surface plasmons in a metallic film. We predict the emergence of Dirac cones in the two-dimensional band-structure of plexcitons due to the inherent alignment of the excitonic transitions in the organic layer. An external magnetic field opens a gap between the Dirac cones if the plexciton system is interfaced with a magneto-optical layer. The resulting energy gap becomes populated with topologically protected one-way modes, which travel at the interface of this plexcitonic system. Our theoretical proposal suggests that plexcitons are a convenient and simple platform for the exploration of exotic phases of matter and for the control of energy flow at the nanoscale.
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- Joel Yuen-Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
- Department of Physics, Kazan Federal University, Kazan 420008, Russian Federation
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Center for Excitonics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Center for Excitonics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Center for Excitonics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Zaster S, Bittner ER, Piryatinski A. Quantum Symmetry Breaking of Exciton/Polaritons in a Metal-Nanorod Plasmonic Array. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:3109-16. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b10726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Svitlana Zaster
- Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Theoretical
Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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Spano FC. Optical microcavities enhance the exciton coherence length and eliminate vibronic coupling in J-aggregates. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:184707. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4919348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- F. C. Spano
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
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Kretz B, Egger DA, Zojer E. A Toolbox for Controlling the Energetics and Localization of Electronic States in Self-Assembled Organic Monolayers. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2015; 2:1400016. [PMID: 27547707 PMCID: PMC4973851 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201400016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Revised: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Controlling the nature of the electronic states within organic layers holds the promise of truly molecular electronics. To achieve that we, here, develop a modular concept for a versatile tuning of electronic properties in organic monolayers and their interfaces. The suggested strategy relies on directly exploiting collective electrostatic effects, which emerge naturally in an ensemble of polar molecules. By means of quantum-mechanical modeling we show that in this way monolayer-based quantum-cascades and quantum-well structures can be realized, which allow a precise control of the local electronic structure and the localization of electronic states. Extending that concept, we furthermore discuss strategies for activating spin sensitivity in specific regions of an organic monolayer.
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- Bernhard Kretz
- Institute of Solid State Physics, NAWI Graz Graz University of Technology Petersgasse 16 A-8010 Graz Austria
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, NAWI Graz Graz University of Technology Petersgasse 16A-8010 Graz Austria; Department of Materials and Interfaces Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovoth 76100 Israel
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, NAWI Graz Graz University of Technology Petersgasse 16 A-8010 Graz Austria
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Daskalakis KS, Maier SA, Murray R, Kéna-Cohen S. Nonlinear interactions in an organic polariton condensate. NATURE MATERIALS 2014; 13:271-8. [PMID: 24509602 DOI: 10.1038/nmat3874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2013] [Accepted: 12/19/2013] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Under the right conditions, cavity polaritons form a macroscopic condensate in the ground state. The fascinating nonlinear behaviour of this condensate is largely dictated by the strength of polariton-polariton interactions. In inorganic semiconductors, these result principally from the Coulomb interaction between Wannier-Mott excitons. Such interactions are considerably weaker for the tightly bound Frenkel excitons characteristic of organic semiconductors and were notably absent in the first reported demonstration of organic polariton lasing. In this work, we demonstrate the realization of an organic polariton condensate, at room temperature, in a microcavity containing a thin film of 2,7-bis[9,9-di(4-methylphenyl)-fluoren-2-yl]-9,9-di(4-methylphenyl)fluorene. On reaching threshold, we observe the spontaneous formation of a linearly polarized condensate, which exhibits a superlinear power dependence, long-range order and a power-dependent blueshift: a clear signature of Frenkel polariton interactions.
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- K S Daskalakis
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- 1] Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK [2] Department of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3A7, Canada
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