Population saturation in trivalent erbium sensitized by organic molecular antennae

Francesco Quochi, Flavia Artizzu, Michele Saba, Fabrizio Cordella, Maria Laura Mercuri, Paola Deplano, Maria Antonietta Loi, Andrea Mura, Giovanni Bongiovanni

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Abstract

We investigate sensitization efficiency of near-infrared emission and population saturation of trivalent erbium in erbium-quinolinolato complexes photoexcited into the absorption band of the organic sensitizer. At low-excitation levels, we find high (~80%) sensitization efficiencies. We observe excited-state population saturationat inversion threshold under subnanosecond pumping at the level of one injected photoexcitation per complex.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)141-144
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Kinetics
  • Spectroscopy

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