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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,981 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2020

Interdot coherent excitonic dynamics in nanometric colloidal CdSe quantum dots (QD) dimers lead to interdot charge migration and energy transfer. We show by electronic quantum dynamical simulations that the interdot coherent response to ultrashort fs...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,323 Views
17 Pages

28 April 2010

In this review, we demonstrate a real-time time-frequency two-dimensional (2D) pump-probe imaging spectroscopy implemented on a single shot basis applicable to excited-state dynamics in solid-state organic and biological materials. Using this techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,270 Views
27 Pages

Transient-Absorption Pump-Probe Spectra as Information-Rich Observables: Case Study of Fulvene

  • Zhaofa Li,
  • Jiawei Peng,
  • Yifei Zhu,
  • Chao Xu,
  • Maxim F. Gelin,
  • Feng Long Gu and
  • Zhenggang Lan

24 March 2025

Conical intersections (CIs) are the most efficient channels of photodeactivation and energy transfer, while femtosecond spectroscopy is the main experimental tool delivering information on molecular CI-driven photoinduced processes. In this work, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,228 Views
9 Pages

7 December 2016

Numerical pump-probe simulations for the sub-cycle transient spectroscopy of thin film diamond under intense few cycle pulse laser field is reported. The electron dynamics is calculated by the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation. Simultaneously, the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,469 Views
18 Pages

Towards Understanding Excited-State Properties of Organic Molecules Using Time-Resolved Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

  • Holger Stiel,
  • Julia Braenzel,
  • Adrian Jonas,
  • Richard Gnewkow,
  • Lisa Theresa Glöggler,
  • Denny Sommer,
  • Thomas Krist,
  • Alexei Erko,
  • Johannes Tümmler and
  • Ioanna Mantouvalou

15 December 2021

The extension of the pump-probe approach known from UV/VIS spectroscopy to very short wavelengths together with advanced simulation techniques allows a detailed analysis of excited-state dynamics in organic molecules or biomolecular structures on a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,228 Views
11 Pages

Ultrafast Studies of ZrTe3 by Transient Absorption Spectrometer

  • Shakeel Ahmed,
  • Wang Rui,
  • Faizah Altaf,
  • Jahanzeb Khan,
  • Patrizia Bocchetta and
  • Han Zhang

5 August 2022

Two-dimensional (2D) tri-TMDCs carrier dynamics provide a platform for studying excitons through Ultrafast Pump-Probe Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. Here we studied the ZrTe3 nanosheets (NTs) exciton dynamics by transient absorption (TA) spectrom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,725 Views
17 Pages

11 August 2022

Cadmium yellow degradation afflicts numerous paintings realized between the XIXth and XXth centuries. The degradation process and its kinetics is not completely understood. It consists of chalking, lightening, flaking, spalling, and, in its most dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,066 Views
11 Pages

Filling Exciton Trap-States in Two-Dimensional Tungsten Disulfide (WS2) and Diselenide (WSe2) Monolayers

  • Zeynep Ezgi Eroglu,
  • Dillon Contreras,
  • Pouya Bahrami,
  • Nurul Azam,
  • Masoud Mahjouri-Samani and
  • Abdelaziz Boulesbaa

18 March 2021

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D-TMDs) hold a great potential to platform future flexible optoelectronics. The beating hearts of these materials are their excitons known as XA and XB, which arise from transitions between spin-orbi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,253 Views
17 Pages

Acoustic Vibration Modes of Gold–Silver Core–Shell Nanoparticles

  • Tadele Orbula Otomalo,
  • Lorenzo Di Mario,
  • Cyrille Hamon,
  • Doru Constantin,
  • Francesco Toschi,
  • Khanh-Van Do,
  • Vincent Juvé,
  • Pascal Ruello,
  • Patrick O’Keeffe and
  • Bruno Palpant
  • + 2 authors

Bimetallic Au/Ag core–shell cuboid nanoparticles (NPs) exhibit a complex plasmonic response dominated by a dipolar longitudinal mode and higher-order transverse modes in the near-UV, which may be exploited for a range of applications. In this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,139 Views
12 Pages

p-Type Iodine-Doping of Cu3N and Its Conversion to γ-CuI for the Fabrication of γ-CuI/Cu3N p-n Heterojunctions

  • Argyris Tilemachou,
  • Matthew Zervos,
  • Andreas Othonos,
  • Theodoros Pavloudis and
  • Joseph Kioseoglou

Cu3N with a cubic crystal structure is obtained in this paper by the sputtering of Cu under N2 followed by annealing under NH3: H2 at 400 °C, after which it was doped with iodine at room temperature resulting into p-type Cu3N with hole densities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,226 Views
29 Pages

16 April 2023

Proton transfer processes of organic molecules are key to charge transport and photoprotection in biological systems. Among them, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) reactions are characterized by quick and efficient charge transfer...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,151 Views
18 Pages

Ultraviolet Transient Absorption Spectrometer with Sub-20-fs Time Resolution

  • Rocío Borrego-Varillas,
  • Lucia Ganzer,
  • Giulio Cerullo and
  • Cristian Manzoni

16 June 2018

We describe a transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy system in the ultraviolet (UV) spectral range, for the study of the ultrafast optical response of biomolecules. After reviewing the techniques for the generation and characterization of ultrashort...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,896 Views
10 Pages

Optical Gain in Semiconducting Polymer Nano and Mesoparticles

  • Mark Geoghegan,
  • Marta M. Mróz,
  • Chiara Botta,
  • Laurie Parrenin,
  • Cyril Brochon,
  • Eric Cloutet,
  • Eleni Pavlopoulou,
  • Georges Hadziioannou and
  • Tersilla Virgili

20 February 2021

The presence of excited-states and charge-separated species was identified through UV and visible laser pump and visible/near-infrared probe femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in spin coated films of poly[N-9″-heptadecanyl-2,7-carbazole-al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,075 Views
10 Pages

6 January 2020

Ultrafast pump probe reflectivity (PPR) signal near band edge is modeled by taking into account band filling (BF) and band gap renormalization (BGR) effects with the carrier density of ~1017/cm3 in GaAs crystal at room temperature. The calculated res...