Tayloring of the optical properties by symmetry modification of substituted quaterthiophene single crystals
- 2 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 72 (9), 1013-1014
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.120950
Abstract
We report an optical study of polymorphic single crystals of a polysubstituted α-conjugated quaterthiophene. The crystals exhibit two crystalline symmetries (monoclinic and triclinic) with different energy gaps and lifetimes of the elementary excitations. Their optical properties are correlated to the molecular structure, showing that the functionalization process determines an intrinsic tuning of the crystal properties.Keywords
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