Nanotechnology of Dye Aggregates

Exchange narrowing of the J band of molecular dye aggregates.

The exchange narrowing of the J band of certain dye monomers upon aggregation in solution has been known since the 1930s. Here, we analyze the theoretical explanations put forward to account for these narrow absorption bands. Although the theories range from models of identical monomers interacting with vibrations to the opposite of rigid monomers with statistically distributed electronic site ...

Anisotropic Optical Properties of Thin-Film Thiacarbocyanine Dye Aggregates

Optical properties of thin films of aggregated thiacarbocyanine (TCC) dyes have been studied by means of spectroscopic ellipsometry and polarized IR spectroscopy. The experimental results reveal a strongly anisotropic response of the films, as quantified in the reported anisotropic dielectric functions over a wide range of frequencies. The studied TCC films exhibit both J-aggregate and H-aggreg...

Exciton transport in thin-film cyanine dye J-aggregates.

We present a theoretical model for the study of exciton dynamics in J-aggregated monolayers of fluorescent dyes. The excitonic evolution is described by a Monte-Carlo wave function approach which allows for a unified description of the quantum (ballistic) and classical (diffusive) propagation of an exciton on a lattice in different parameter regimes. The transition between the ballistic and dif...

Spectroscopic studies of liquid solutions of R6G laser dye and Ag nanoparticle aggregates

We have found that R6G laser dye in a concentration of 0.1 g l−1 mixed with a solution of aggregated silver nanoparticles exhibits a new emission band with a maximum at 612 nm. This band does not exist in pure dye of comparable concentration or in a mixture of dye with a solution of single silver nanoparticles. A qualitatively similar red-shifted emission band is observed in pure R6G dye at ver...

Synthesis of ZnO Aggregates and Their Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells