Host-Guest Energy Transfer Via Dipole-Dipole Interaction in Doped Fluorene Crystals

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Fluorene mixed crystals have been investigated by sensitized fluorescence measurements in order to prove the importance of dipole-dipole interactions for singlet energy transfer. Fluorene: dibenzofuran (F:DBF) and fluorene:benz[f]indan (F:BI) are used. In these systems the optical transition dipole moments of host and guest molecules are perpendicular and parallel to one another, respectively. For these systems the host-guest energy transfer rate has been determined as a function of the guest concentration from the quantum ratio of guest and host emission (F:BI) and from fluorescence decay time measurements (F:DBF). The latter verified the particularly low transfer rate in F : DBF found in previous steady state investigations. The measured transfer rates at 1.3 K could be explained quantitatively taking into account the relative orientations of the host and guest transition dipoles and the oscillator strengths of the optical transitions. An increase of the transfer rate with increasing temperature between 1.3 K and 100 K in the system F: BI could be related to a change from energy transfer within perturbed states to excitonic band states of the fluorene crystal.

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