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Die vorliegende Dissertation widmete sich der Aufklärung der Photodissoziationsdynamik der drei Xylyl-Radikale ortho-, meta- und para-Xylyl sowie des Benzyl-Radikals mit Hilfe des Velocity-Map-Imagings. Diese reaktiven Intermediate sind insbesondere im Bereich der Verbrennungschemie von hoher Relevanz, da sie die primären Zerfallsprodukte der Xylole und des Toluols darstellen, welche als Antiklopfmittel in Ottokraftstoffen Verwendung finden.Dementsprechend ist eine Betrachtung des weiteren Zerfalls dieser resonanz-stabilisierten Radikale, insbesondere unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Rußbildung, von entscheidender Bedeutung.
Für alle drei Xylyl-Radikale konnte eine selektive pyrolytische Generierung aus den entsprechenden 2-(Methylphenyl)ethylnitriten realisiert werden. Die isomerspezifische Identifikation erfolgte mit Hilfe von REMPI-Spektroskopie der jeweiligen D0 -> D3-Übergänge. Nachfolgend wurde die Photodissoziation aller drei Xylyl-Isomere nach Anregung des D3-Zustandes bei ca. 310 nm und nach Anregung der D-Bande bei 250 nm untersucht. Das „einfachste” Experiment stellte in diesem Zusammenhang die Photodissoziation des para-Xylyl-Radikals dar. Es konnte die von Hemberger et al. in thermischen Zerfallsexperimenten beobachtete Reaktion p-Xylyl -> p-Xylylen + H verifiziert werden. Die VMI-Experimente lieferten die Kennwerte <fT>(309.6nm) = 33 % und <fT>(250nm) = 19 % unter Erhalt isotroper Images für beide Anregungswellenlängen. Die dazugehörigen Dissoziationsratenkonstanten wurden zu kH(309.6nm) ≈ 10^8 s-1 und kH(250nm) ≈ 5*10^7 s-1 bestimmt. Es ist verblüffend, dass die Photodissoziation scheinbar bei der höheren Anregungswellenlänge von 309.6 nm (und somit bei geringerer Anregungsenergie) schneller verläuft als bei 250 nm. Darüber hinaus ist es nicht möglich, die beobachteten Raten mittels des statistischen Modells der RRKM-Theorie zu beschreiben. Des Weiteren konnten auch die Translationsenergieverteilungen nicht mit dem „Quack-Fit” für statistische Dissoziationen angefittet werden. Bei der Photodissoziation des para-Xylyl-Radikals liegt eine Dissoziation nach Rückkehr in den rovibronisch hochangeregten elektronischen Grundzustand infolge der Photoanregung vor. Hierbei thermalisiert die innere Energie im elektronischen Grundzustand vor der Dissoziation scheinbar nur teilweise, sodass keine vollständige statistische Verteilung dieser innerhalb des para-Xylyls gegeben ist. Da dies eine Grundvoraussetzung der gängigen statistischen Modelle darstellt, ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass keine quantitative Reproduktion der experimentellen Ergebnisse durch Anwendung dieser Modelle ermöglicht wird.
Bei entsprechenden Experimenten zum ortho-Isomer konnten diese statistischen Modelle ebenfalls nicht zur quantitativen Beschreibung der Dissoziation verwendet werden. Abermals wurde mit kH(311.1nm) ≈ 10^8 s-1 und kH(250nm) ≈ 5*10^7 s-1 eine schnellere Dissoziation bei geringerer Anregungsenergie festgestellt. Dies erscheint demnach charakteristisch für die Xylyl-Radikale. Innerhalb der VMI-Experimente wurden isotrope Verteilungen erhalten, deren Fragmenttranslationsenergieverteilung nach Anregung des D3-Niveaus bei 311.1 nm jedoch nicht durch die von Hemberger et al. beschriebene Hauptreaktion o-Xylyl -> o-Xylylen + H erklärt werden konnte. Eine Fragmentation nach o-Xylyl -> Benzocyclobuten + H konnte auf diesem Weg als Hauptdissoziationspfad identifiziert werden. Innerhalb der Studien von Hemberger et al. ist eine Reaktion zu Benzocyclobuten bei Anregung mit 311.1 nm energetisch nicht zugänglich. Mittels quantenchemischer Rechnung konnte jedoch ein bislang unbekannter, energetisch zugänglicher Reaktionspfad zur Bildung von Benzocyclobuten unter simultaner Ringschlussreaktion und Wasserstofffragmentation identifiziert und charakterisiert werden. Die Kennwerte der Photodissoziationsreaktion des ortho-Xylyls konnten hierdurch zu <fT>(311.1nm) = 30 % und <fT>(250nm) = 16 % bestimmt werden. Wie bereits im Fall des para-Isomers liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass es sich um eine Dissoziation aus dem rovibronisch hoch-angeregten elektronischen Grundzustand handelt, welcher nicht vollständig vor der Fragmentation thermalisiert.
Im Rahmen der Experimente zum letzten der drei Xylyl-Isomere, dem meta-Xylyl-Radikal, konnte mit VMI eine Fragmentation nach m-Xylyl -> m-Xylylen + H als Hauptdissoziationpfad ausgeschlossen werden. Innerhalb der Experimente nach Anregung des D3-Niveaus um 310 nm konnten mit para-Xylylen und Benzocyclobuten zwei Reaktionsprodukte festgestellt werden, welche die erhaltene Translationsenergieverteilung erklären könnten, wobei die entsprechende maximale Überschussenergie einer Fragmentation zu para-Xylylen den Nullabfall der Verteilung geringfügig besser widerspiegelt. Die mittlere Fragmenttranslationsenergie liegt mit <fT>(p-Xylylen) = 29 % respektive <fT>(Bcb) = 25 % leicht unterhalb der entsprechenden Kennwerte der para- beziehungsweise ortho-Xylyl Experimente. Durch die nötige, der Dissoziation vorausgehende Isomerisierung scheint ein höherer Thermalisierungsgrad der Schwingungs- und Rotationsenergie innerhalb des elektronischen Grundzustands erreicht zu werden, aus welchem die geringen <fT>-Werte resultieren könnten. Der Effekt verminderter <fT>-Werte wurde in den Experimenten bei 250 nm nicht gefunden (<fT>(p-Xylylen) = 19 % respektive <fT>(Bcb) = 17 %). Vergleicht man an dieser Stelle die <ET>- anstelle der <fT>-Werte (<ET>(para) = 0.41 eV, <ET>(ortho) = 0.38 eV, <ET>(meta) = 0.41 eV), stellt man fest, dass <ET>(meta) = <ET>(para) gilt und somit ein weiteres Indiz dafür gefunden wurde, dass eine Umlagerung zu para-Xylyl mit anschließender Fragmentation zu para-Xylylen möglicherweise gegenüber jener zum ortho-Isomer mit nachfolgender Bcb-Bildung bevorzugt ist. Dies würde darüber hinaus im Einklang mit den Studien von Hemberger et al. stehen, in welchen beim thermischen Zerfall des meta-Xylyls para-Xylylen als alleiniges Fragmentationsprodukt gefunden wurde. Eine Betrachtung der Umlagerung mittels RRKM wies jedoch keinen bevorzugten Isomerisierungspfad aus. Schlussendlich lässt sich aufgrund der ermittelten Ratenkonstanten (kH(310nm) ≈ 10^8 s-1, kH(250nm) ≈ 4*10^7 s-1) sowie den <fT>-Werten vermuten, dass die Isomerisierung langsamer als die Dissoziation bei 310 nm verläuft, jedoch zumindest auf einer ähnlichen Zeitskala wie die entsprechende Dissoziation nach Anregung bei 250 nm. Eine zweifelsfreie Interpretation der meta-Xylyl Experimente gestaltet sich jedoch als schwierig.
Innerhalb der Studien zur Photodissoziation des Benzyl-Radikals konnten literaturbekannte Daten zur Fragmentation nach Anregung um 250 nm in guter Übereinstimmung reproduziert werden. Die experimentellen Daten zur Untersuchung der Photodissoziation nach Anregung des D3-Niveaus konnten jedoch nicht eindeutig interpretiert werden. Die literaturbekannte Lage des D3-Niveaus bei 305.3 nm konnte mittels REMPI-Spektroskopie reproduziert werden und anschließende 1H-Photofragmentspektren zeigten, dass eine Anregung des D3-Niveaus zur Bildung von Wasserstofffragmenten führt. Die beobachteten 1H-Fragmente zeigten jedoch eine deutlich zu hohe Überschussenergie für eine Einphotonenabsorption, sodass diese Mehrphotonenabsorptionen zugeordnet werden müssen. Es lässt sich vermuten, dass die Wasserstofffragmente aus einer Anregung eines „superexcited states” oberhalb des Ionisationspotentials, wahrscheinlich durch Zweiphotonenabsorption, stammen. Dieser „superexcited state” zeigt scheinbar keine (vollständige) Autoionisation und führt nachfolgend zumindest teilweise zur Fragmentation des Benzyl-Radikals. In der Folge liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass die Energien eines einzelnen 305 nm-Photons nicht zur Initiierung einer Photodissoziation des Benzyl-Radikals ausreichend ist oder aber, dass diese Photodissoziation zu langsam ist, um sie in einem VMI-Experiment zu beobachten. Potential für weitere Experimente zur Photodissoziation des Benzyl-Radikals nach Anregung des D3-Niveaus wird an dieser Stelle nicht gesehen.
Die Terahertz-Technologie erschließt permanent neue Forschungsbereiche und wird auch vermehrt im kommerziellen Bereich eingesetzt. Diese Entwicklung wird in eigenen Analysen dargestellt. Als Kernaspekte dieses Buchs werden technologische Verbesserungen für gepulste Terahertz-Systeme und der spektroskopische Einsatz für die Polymeranalytik vorgestellt. Einen besonderen Stellenwert nehmen dabei Untersuchungen an Polymermischungen im Schmelzezustand während der Prozessierung ein. Bemerkenswert ist hierbei das temperaturabhängige Verhalten von verschiedensten Polyamiden. Die Änderung der optischen und spektroskopischen Eigenschaften und die Einflussfaktoren werden tiefergehend betrachtet. Dabei werden verschiedene klassische und neuere Experimentalmethoden, Modellierungen und quantenchemische Simulationsmethoden eingesetzt, um insbesondere die intermolekularen Wechselwirkungen aufzuklären.
In this work the energy transfer and excitonic coupling in different chromophore arrangements were investigated. A difference in the coupling strength was introduced by varring the connecting unit and the spacial orientation relative to each other.
The synthesis of the 2,7-substituted pyrene compounds could be optimised and good yields of HAB 1 and HAB 2 and small amounts of HAB 2 could be achieved by cobalt-catalysed trimerisation or Diels Alder reaction in the end. Absorption and fluorescence spectra reveal strong intramolecular interactions between the pyrene molecules in the HAB 1. Excitation spectra recorded at the high and low energy fluorescence suggest the contribution of two components to the spectra. One being similar to the ground state aggregate and a second species similar to undisturbed pyrene. All these feature can be accounted to two different fluorescent states which are due to electronical decoupling in the excited state. Due to the strong intramolecular coupling already in the ground state of the molecule, no energy transfer could be studied, as the six pyrene units cannot be seen as separate spectroscopic entities between which energy could be transferred.
In the second part of this thesis dye conjugates of different size and alignment were synthesised to study the interaction of the transition-dipole moments. Therefore a systematic investigation of Sonogashira conditions was performed in order to obtain good yields of the desired compounds and keep dehalogenation at a minimum level. Nevertheless only the symmetrical triads could be purified as the asymmeric triads and pentades proved to decompose during purification.
The pyrene containing triads Py2B and Py2SQB show small interactions already in the ground state represented by red shifts of the spectra and a broadening of the bands. Nevertheless, these interactions are in the weak coupling regime and energy transfer between the constituents is possible. On the contrary in the TA spectra it is obvious that always the whole triad, at least to some extend is excited. To question if the excitation of the high energy state is deactivated by energy transfer or rather IC in a superchromophore could not be distinguished in the course of this work. At present additional time-dependent calculations of the dynamics are in progress to get a deeper understanding of the photophysical processes taking place in the triads.
The dye conjugates B2SQB-3 and (SQB)2B-4 can be assigned to the strong interaction range and hence are describable by exciton theory. The transition-dipole moments proved to be more than additive and increase for both compounds from absorption to fluorescence. This can be explained by an enhancement of the coupling in the relaxed excited state compared to the absorption into the Franck-Condon state due to a more steep potential energy surface in the excited state and hence smaller fluctuations.
In the last part of this thesis the influence of disrupting electronical communication by implementing a rigid non-conjugated bridge in a bichromophoric trans-squaraine system was tested. While the flexible linked squaraines show complex spectra due to different conformers the SQA2Anth compound is rigified and no rotation is possible. This change in flexibility is represented in the steady-state spectra where just one main absorption and fluorescence band is present due to a single allowed excitonic state. The system proves to own an excited state that is completely delocalised over the whole molecule.
In the context of quantum mechanical calculations, the properties of non-adiabatic coupling in a small system, the Shin-Metiu model, is investigated.
The transition from adiabatic to non-adiabatic dynamics is elucidated in modifying the electron-nuclear interaction. This allows the comparison of weakly correlated electron-nuclear motion with the case where the strong correlations determine the dynamics.
The studies of the model are extended to include spectroscopical transitions being present in two-dimensional and degenerate four-wave mixing spectroscopy.
Furthermore, the quantum and classical time-evolution of the coupled motion in the complete electron-nuclear phase space is compared for the two coupling cases.
Additionally, the numerically exact electron flux within the weak coupling case is compared to the Born-Oppenheimer treatment.
In the last part of the thesis, the model is extended to two dimensions.
The system then possesses potential energy surfaces which exhibit a typical 'Mexican hat'-like structure and a conical intersection in the adiabatic representation.
Thus, it is possible to map properties of the system onto a vibronic coupling (Jahn-Teller) hamiltonian. Exact wave-packet propagations as well as nuclear wave-packet dynamics in the adiabatic and diabatic representation are performed.
The invention of laser pulse shapers allowed for various quantum control experiments, where a chemical reaction is guided by specifically tailored laser pulses. However, despite of the prominent role of the liquid phase in chemistry, no successful attempt for controlling the selectivity of a bond-fission reaction has yet been reported in this state of matter. Promising candidates for such an experiment are C$_{\infty\mathrm{v}}$-symmetric trihalide anions with two different chemical bonds like $\ce{I2Cl-}$, because these molecules notionally offer the most simplest selectivity-control scenario of breaking either the one or the other bond and they are expected to dissociate under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation like it is known for the most-studied trihalide $\ce{I3-}$.
In order to investigate in this thesis the possibility that the dissociation reaction of such trihalides branches into two different photofragments, the ultrafast photodissociation dynamics of $\ce{I3-}$, $\ce{Br3-}$, $\ce{IBr2-}$ and $\ce{ICl2-}$ (point group D$_{\infty\mathrm{h}}$) as well as of $\ce{I2Br-}$ and $\ce{I2Cl-}$ (point group C$_{\infty\mathrm{v}}$) in dichloromethane solution were measured with broadband transient absorption spectroscopy in magic-angle configuration. The identification of the reaction pathway(s) relies on vibrational wavepacket oscillations, which survive the dissociation process and therefore carry not only informations about the reactant trihalides but also about the fragment dihalides.
These characteristic vibrational wavenumbers were extracted from the measured transient absorption spectra by globally fitting the population dynamics together with the wavepacket dynamics. Until recently, such a combined model function was not available in the well-established fitting tool Glotaran. This made it inevitable to develop a custom implementation of the underlying variable-projection fitting algorithm, for which the computer-algebra software Mathematica was chosen. Mathematica's sophisticated built-in functions allow not only for a high flexibility in constructing arbitrary model functions, but also offer the possibility to automatically calculate the derivative(s) of a model function. This allows the fitting procedure to use the exact Jacobian matrix instead of approximating it with the finite difference method.
Against the expectation, only one of the two thinkable photodissociation channels was found for each of the investigated C$_{\infty\mathrm{v}}$ trihalides. Since the photofragments recombine, their absorption signal as well as the reactant ground state bleach recover. This happens in a biexponential manner, which in the case of $\ce{I3-}$ was interpreted by Ruhman and coworkers with the direct formation of a neutral dihalogen fragment $\ce{I2}$ beside the negatively charged dihalide fragment $\ce{I2-}$. In this thesis, such a direct reaction channel was not found and instead the fast component of the biexponential decay is explained with vibrational excess energy mediating the recombination-preceding electron transfer process $\ce{I2- + I -> I2 + I-}$, while the slow component is attributed to cooled-down fragments.
In addition to the trihalide experiments, the possibility of a magic-angle configuration for polarization-shaping control experiments was theoretically investigated in this thesis by deriving magic-angle conditions for the third-order electric-dipole response signal of arbitrarily polarized laser pulses. Furthermore, the subtleties of anisotropy signals violating the well-known range of \numrange{-0.2}{0.4} were studied.
Energy Transfer Between Squaraine Polymer Sections: From helix to zig-zag and All the Way Back
(2015)
Joint experimental and theoretical study of the absorption spectra of squaraine polymers in solution provide evidence that two different conformations are present in solution: a helix and a zig-zag structure. This unique situation allows investigating ultrafast energy transfer processes between different structural segments within a single polymer chain in solution. The understanding of the underlying dynamics is of fundamental importance for the development of novel materials for light-harvesting and optoelectronic applications. We combine here femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy with time-resolved 2D electronic spectroscopy showing that ultrafast energy transfer within the squaraine polymer chains proceeds from initially excited helix segments to zig-zag segments or vice versa, depending on the solvent as well as on the excitation wavenumber. These observations contrast other conjugated polymers such as MEH-PPV where much slower intrachain energy transfer was reported. The reason for the very fast energy transfer in squaraine polymers is most likely a close matching of the density of states between donor and acceptor polymer segments because of very small reorganization energy in these cyanine-like chromophores.
The mechanism of excimer formation: an experimental and theoretical study on the pyrene dimer
(2017)
The understanding of excimer formation in organic materials is of fundamental importance, since excimers profoundly influence their functional performance in applications such as light-harvesting, photovoltaics or organic electronics. We present a joint experimental and theoretical study of the ultrafast dynamics of excimer formation in the pyrene dimer in a supersonic jet, which is the archetype of an excimer forming system. We perform simulations of the nonadiabatic photodynamics in the frame of TDDFT that reveal two distinct excimer formation pathways in the gas-phase dimer. The first pathway involves local excited state relaxation close to the initial Franck–Condon geometry that is characterized by a strong excitation of the stacking coordinate exhibiting damped oscillations with a period of 350 fs that persist for several picoseconds. The second excimer forming pathway involves large amplitude oscillations along the parallel shift coordinate with a period of ≈900 fs that after intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution leads to the formation of a perfectly stacked dimer. The electronic relaxation within the excitonic manifold is mediated by the presence of intermolecular conical intersections formed between fully delocalized excitonic states. Such conical intersections may generally arise in stacked π-conjugated aggregates due to the interplay between the long-range and short-range electronic coupling. The simulations are supported by picosecond photoionization experiments in a supersonic jet that provide a time-constant for the excimer formation of around 6–7 ps, in good agreement with theory. Finally, in order to explore how the crystal environment influences the excimer formation dynamics we perform large scale QM/MM nonadiabatic dynamics simulations on a pyrene crystal in the framework of the long-range corrected tight-binding TDDFT. In contrast to the isolated dimer, the excimer formation in the crystal follows a single reaction pathway in which the initially excited parallel slip motion is strongly damped by the interaction with the surrounding molecules leading to the slow excimer stabilization on a picosecond time scale.
The mechanism of excimer formation: an experimental and theoretical study on the pyrene dimer
(2017)
The understanding of excimer formation in organic materials is of fundamental importance, since excimers profoundly influence their functional performance in applications such as light-harvesting, photovoltaics or organic electronics. We present a joint experimental and theoretical study of the ultrafast dynamics of excimer formation in the pyrene dimer in a supersonic jet, which is the archetype of an excimer forming system. We perform simulations of the nonadiabatic photodynamics in the frame of TDDFT that reveal two distinct excimer formation pathways in the gas-phase dimer. The first pathway involves local excited state relaxation close to the initial Franck–Condon geometry that is characterized by a strong excitation of the stacking coordinate exhibiting damped oscillations with a period of 350 fs that persist for several picoseconds. The second excimer forming pathway involves large amplitude oscillations along the parallel shift coordinate with a period of ≈900 fs that after intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution leads to the formation of a perfectly stacked dimer. The electronic relaxation within the excitonic manifold is mediated by the presence of intermolecular conical intersections formed between fully delocalized excitonic states. Such conical intersections may generally arise in stacked π-conjugated aggregates due to the interplay between the long-range and short-range electronic coupling. The simulations are supported by picosecond photoionization experiments in a supersonic jet that provide a time-constant for the excimer formation of around 6–7 ps, in good agreement with theory. Finally, in order to explore how the crystal environment influences the excimer formation dynamics we perform large scale QM/MM nonadiabatic dynamics simulations on a pyrene crystal in the framework of the long-range corrected tight-binding TDDFT. In contrast to the isolated dimer, the excimer formation in the crystal follows a single reaction pathway in which the initially excited parallel slip motion is strongly damped by the interaction with the surrounding molecules leading to the slow excimer stabilization on a picosecond time scale.
Most proteins work in aqueous solution and the interaction with water strongly affects their structure and function. However, experimentally the motion of a specific single water molecule is difficult to trace by conventional methods, because they average over the heterogeneous solvation structure of bulk water surrounding the protein. Here, we provide a detailed atomistic picture of the water rearrangement dynamics around the –CONH– peptide linkage in the two model systems formanilide and acetanilide, which simply differ by the presence of a methyl group at the peptide linkage. The combination of picosecond pump–probe time-resolved infrared spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations demonstrates that the solvation dynamics at the molecular level is strongly influenced by this small structural difference. The effective timescales for solvent migration triggered by ionization are mainly controlled by the efficiency of the kinetic energy redistribution rather than the shape of the potential energy surface. This approach provides a fundamental understanding of protein hydration and may help to design functional molecules in solution with tailored properties.
Most proteins work in aqueous solution and the interaction with water strongly affects their structure and function. However, experimentally the motion of a specific single water molecule is difficult to trace by conventional methods, because they average over the heterogeneous solvation structure of bulk water surrounding the protein. Here, we provide a detailed atomistic picture of the water rearrangement dynamics around the –CONH– peptide linkage in the two model systems formanilide and acetanilide, which simply differ by the presence of a methyl group at the peptide linkage. The combination of picosecond pump–probe time-resolved infrared spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations demonstrates that the solvation dynamics at the molecular level is strongly influenced by this small structural difference. The effective timescales for solvent migration triggered by ionization are mainly controlled by the efficiency of the kinetic energy redistribution rather than the shape of the potential energy surface. This approach provides a fundamental understanding of protein hydration and may help to design functional molecules in solution with tailored properties.
We present a joint experimental and computational study of the nonradiative deactivation of the benzyl radical, C\(_7\)H\(_7\) after UV excitation. Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging was applied to investigate the photodynamics of the radical. The experiments were accompanied by excited state dynamics simulations using surface hopping. Benzyl has been excited at 265 nm into the D-band (\(\pi\pi^*\)) and the dynamics was probed using probe wavelengths of 398 nm or 798 nm. With 398 nm probe a single time constant of around 70-80 fs was observed. When the dynamics was probed at 798 nm, a second time constant \(\tau_2\)=1.5 ps was visible. It is assigned to further non-radiative deactivation to the lower-lying D\(_1\)/D\(_2\) states.
The design of ordered arrays of metal nanoclusters such as for example 2D cluster organic frameworks might open a new route towards the development of materials with tailored optical properties. Such systems could serve as plasmonically enhanced light-harvesting materials, sensors or catalysts. We present here a theoretical approach for the simulation of the optical properties of ordered arrays of metal clusters that is based on the ab initio parametrized Frenkel exciton model. We demonstrate that small atomically precise silver clusters can be assembled in one- and two-dimensional arrays on suitably designed porphyrin templates exhibiting remarkable optical properties. By employing explicit TDDFT calculations on smaller homologs, we show that the intrinsic optical properties of metal clusters are largely preserved but undergo J- and H-type excitonic coupling that results in controllable splitting of their excited states.
Furthermore, ab initio parameterized Frenkel exciton model calculations allow us to predict an energetic splitting of up to 0.77 eV in extended two-dimensional square arrays and 0.79 eV in tilted square aggregates containing up to 25 cluster-porphyrin subunits.
We present a theoretical approach for the simulation of the electric field and exciton propagation in ordered arrays constructed of molecular-sized noble metal clusters bound to organic polymer templates. In order to describe the electronic coupling between individual constituents of the nanostructure we use the ab initio parameterized transition charge method which is more accurate than the usual dipole-dipole coupling. The electronic population dynamics in the nanostructure under an external laser pulse excitation is simulated by numerical integration of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation employing the fully coupled Hamiltonian. The solution of the TDSE gives rise to time-dependent partial point charges for each subunit of the nanostructure, and the spatio-temporal electric field distribution is evaluated by means of classical electrodynamics methods. The time-dependent partial charges are determined based on the stationary partial and transition charges obtained in the framework of the TDDFT. In order to treat large plasmonic nanostructures constructed of many constituents, the approximate self-consistent iterative approach presented in (Lisinetskaya and Mitric in Phys Rev B 89:035433, 2014) is modified to include the transition-charge-based interaction. The developed methods are used to study the optical response and exciton dynamics of Ag-3(+) and porphyrin-Ag-4 dimers. Subsequently, the spatio-temporal electric field distribution in a ring constructed of ten porphyrin-Ag-4 subunits under the action of circularly polarized laser pulse is simulated. The presented methodology provides a theoretical basis for the investigation of coupled light-exciton propagation in nanoarchitectures built from molecular size metal nanoclusters in which quantum confinement effects are important.
We present a joint theoretical and experimental study of excited state dynamics in pure and hydrated anionic gold clusters Au\(^-_3\)[H\(_2\)O]\(_n\) (n = 0-2). We employ mixed quantum-classical dynamics combined with femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy in order to investigate the influence of hydration on excited state lifetimes and photo-dissociation dynamics. A gradual decrease of the excited state lifetime with the number of adsorbed water molecules as well as gold cluster fragmentation quenching by two or more water molecules are observed both in experiment and in simulations. Non-radiative relaxation and dissociation in excited states are found to be responsible for the excited state population depletion. Time constants of these two processes strongly depend on the number of water molecules leading to the possibility to modulate excited state dynamics and fragmentation of the anionic cluster by adsorption of water molecules.
We have investigated the photodynamics of \(\beta\)-D-glucose employing our field-induced surface hopping method (FISH), which allows us to simulate the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics, including explicitly nonadiabatic effects and light-induced excitation. Our results reveal that from the initially populated S\(_{1}\) and S\(_{2}\) states, glucose returns nonradiatively to the ground state within about 200 fs. This takes place mainly via conical intersections (CIs) whose geometries
in most cases involve the elongation of a single O-H bond, while in some instances ring-opening due to dissociation of a C-O bond is observed. Experimentally, excitation to a distinct excited electronic state is improbable due to the presence of a dense manifold of states bearing similar oscillator strengths. Our FISH simulations explicitly including a UV laser pulse of 6.43 eV photon energy reveals that after initial excitation the population is almost equally spread over several close-lying electronic states. This is followed by a fast nonradiative decay on the time scale of 100-200 fs, with the final return to the ground state proceeding via the S\(_{1}\) state through the same types of CIs as observed in the field-free simulations.
We introduce a general theoretical approach for the simulation of photochemical dynamics under the influence of circularly polarized light to explore the possibility of generating enantiomeric enrichment through polarized-light-selective photochemistry. The method is applied to the simulation of the photolysis of alanine, a prototype chiral amino acid. We show that a systematic enantiomeric enrichment can be obtained depending on the helicity of the circularly polarized light that induces the excited-state photochemistry of alanine. By analyzing the patterns of the photoinduced fragmentation of alanine we find an inducible enantiomeric enrichment up to 1.7%, which is also in good correspondence to the experimental findings. Our method is generally applicable to complex systems and might serve to systematically explore the photochemical origin of homochirality.
Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy in Molecular Beams and Liquids Using Incoherent Observables
(2018)
The aim of the present work was to implement an experimental approach that enables coherent two-dimensional (2D) electronic spectroscopy of samples in various states of matter. For samples in the liquid phase, a setup was realized that utilizes the sample fluorescence for the acquisition of 2D spectra. Whereas the liquid-phase approach has been established before, coherent 2D spectroscopy on gaseous samples in a molecular beam as developed in this work is in fact a new method. It employs for the first time cations in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for signal detection and was used to obtain the first ion-selective 2D spectra of a molecular-beam sample. Additionally, a new acquisition concept was developed in this thesis that significantly decreases measurement times in 2D spectroscopy using optimized sparse sampling and a compressed-sensing reconstruction algorithm.
Characteristic for the variant of 2D spectroscopy presented in this work is the usage of a phase-coherent sequence of four laser pulses in a fully collinear geometry for sample excitation. The pulse sequence was generated by a custom-designed pulse shaper that is capable of rapid scanning by changing the pulse parameters such as time delays and phases with the repetition rate of the laser. The sample's response was detected by monitoring incoherent observables that arise from the final-state population, for instance fluorescence or cations. Phase cycling, i.e., signal acquisition with different combinations of the relative phases of the excitation pulses, was applied to extract nonlinear signal contributions from the full signal during data analysis.
Liquid-phase 2D fluorescence spectroscopy was established with the laser dye cresyl violet as a sample molecule, confirming coherent oscillations previously observed in literature that are originating from vibronic coherences in specific regions of the 2D spectrum.
The data set of this experiment was used subsequently to introduce optimized sparse sampling in 2D spectroscopy. An optimization algorithm was implemented in order to find the best sampling pattern while taking only one quarter of the regular time-domain sampling points, thereby reducing the acquisition time by a factor of four. Signal recovery was based on a new and compact representation of 2D spectra using the von Neumann basis, which required about six times less coefficients than the Fourier basis to retain the relevant information. Successful reconstruction was shown by recovering the coherent oscillations in cresyl violet from a reduced data set.
Finally, molecular-beam coherent 2D spectroscopy was introduced with an investigation of ionization pathways in highly-excited nitrogen dioxide, revealing transitions to discrete auto-ionizing states as the dominant contribution to the ion signal. Furthermore, the advantage of the time-of-flight approach to obtain reactant and product 2D spectra simultaneously enabled the observation of distinct differences in the multiphoton-ionization response functions of the nitrogen dioxide cation and the nitrogen oxide ionic fragment.
The developed experimental techniques of this work will facilitate fast acquisition of 2D spectra for samples in various states of matter and permit reliable direct comparison of results. Therefore, they pave the way to study the properties of quantum coherences during photophysical processes or photochemical reactions in different environments.
Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, ein Schichtsystem auf Basis des Sol-Gel-Prozesses zu entwickeln, um Lighttrapping in Si-Dünnschichtsolarzellen zu erzeugen. Die Grundlage dieses Schichtsystems bilden SiO2-Partikel, die über den Stöber-Prozess hergestellt werden. Es zeigte sich, dass sich die Rauheit und der Haze der Schichten über die Partikelgröße und Schichtdicke einstellen lassen.
Um die mechanische Stabilität der reinen Stöber-Schichten zu verbessern, kamen verschiedene Binder zum Einsatz. Beste Ergebnisse zeigten Binder basierend auf löslichen Vorstufenpulvern, da diese dem Stöber-Sol beigemischt werden konnten und so Binder und Partikel gleichzeitig aufgebracht werden konnten.
Auf diese Weise entstehen mechanisch stabile, lichtstreuende Schichten. Zum Einsatz kam zunächst ein TiO2-Binder. Durch eine anschließende Glättung der Stöber-TiO2-Streuschichten mit SiO2 entsteht eine defektfreie, aber dennoch raue Oberfläche. Zusätzlich wird ein beträchtlicher Teil des Lichts in große Winkel gestreut.
Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich auf den SiO2-geglätteten Stöber-TiO2-Streuschichten ZnO:Al deponieren lässt, wobei die elektrischen Eigenschaften von der Dicke der Glättung abhängen. Auch die elektrischen Eigenschaften der Si-Dünnschichtsolarzellen hängen von der Glättung bzw. der Dicke der Glättung ab. Dies gilt insbesondere für die von der Materialqualität abhängigen Parameter Füllfaktor FF und offen Klemmenspannung VOC. Insgesamt fallen die Parameter jedoch noch gegenüber Referenzzellen auf geätztem Frontkontakt zurück. Vor allem aber wurde die hohe Zellreflexion aufgrund der Glas-TiO2-Grenzfläche als primäres Problem identifiziert. Dennoch konnte bei einer Glättungsdicke von 200 nm sehr gutes Lighttrapping beobachtet werden. Verantwortlich hierfür ist sehr wahrscheinlich die Großwinkelstreuung der Stöber-TiO2-Streuschichten.
Um die Zellreflexion zu verringern, wurde der Brechungsindex des Binders und der Glättungsschichten an den Stack aus Substrat, Streuschicht und ZnO:Al-Schicht angepasst. Idee war es, durch Einbringen eines Al2O3-Vorstufenpulvers eine niedrigbrechende Komponente bereitzustellen, um durch Mischung von Al2O3- und TiO2-Vorstufenpulver freie Hand über den Brechungsindex des Binders und der Glättung zu erhalten.
Da sich das Volumenverhältnis von SiO2-Partikeln zu Binder bei verschiedenen Al2O3-TiO2-Verhältnissen nur schwer bestimmen lässt, wurde lediglich ein reiner Al2O3-Binder in den Streuschichten eingesetzt. Die Einstellung des Brechungsindex beschränkte sich allein auf die Glättungsschichten. Um Stöber-Al2O3-Streuschichten mit hoher Rauigkeit und geringen Defekten zu erzielen, muss das Binder-zu-Partikel-Verhältnis angepasst werden. Beste Ergebnisse ergaben sich bei einem Al2O3-Gehalt von 2% im Sol. Aufgrund der hohen Rauigkeit besitzen die Streuschichten einen hohen Haze und wegen des geringen Brechungsunterschied zwischen Glas und Binder eine hohe Transmission. Die Glättung der Streuschichten im Al2O3-TiO2-System ist nur mit Hilfe einer zusätzlichen SiO2-Glättungsschicht und einer reduzierten Dicke auf 50 nm möglich. Auf den reinen defektreichen Streuschichten tendieren die Al2O3-TiO2-Schichten selbst zu Rissbildung.
Zur Untersuchung der ZnO:Al-Deposition wurde eine Glättungsdicke von 200 nm gewählt. Die erwies sich als zu gering. Die aufgebrachten ZnO:Al-Schichten wiesen größere Poren und kleinere Oberflächendefekte auf. Die Anpassung des Brechungsindex der Glättungsschichten an die ZnO:Al-Schicht erwies sich nicht als vorteilhaft. Die reine Al2O3-Glättung zeigt auch nach der ZnO:Al-Deposition die höchste Transmission. Die Winkelverteilung des Streulichts der Stöber-Al2O3-Streuschichten ist gegenüber den Stöber-TiO2-Streuschichten zu kleineren Winkeln verschoben. Dennoch wird ein größerer Anteil des Lichts in große Winkel gestreut, als es bei der geätzten ZnO:Al-Referenz der Fall ist.
Trotz der Defekte in den ZnO:Al-Schichten konnten auf den Stöber-Al2O3-Streuschichten funktionierende Tandemzellen hergestellt werden. Der Füllfaktor und die offene Klemmenspannung fallen nur geringfügig hinter die der Referenzzelle zurück. In der Kurzschlussstromdichte machen sich die verringerte Zellreflexion und das sehr gute Lighttrapping bemerkbar, so dass das Niveau der Referenz erreicht werden konnte. Zu beachten ist allerdings, dass gerade im langwelligen Lighttrapping-Spektralbereich die gleiche EQE erreicht wurde, trotz immer noch leicht erhöhter Zellreflexion.
Die letzte Versuchsreihe konnte zeigen, dass die entwickelten Schichten sich sehr gut zur Erzeugung von Lighttrapping in Si-Dünnschichtsolarzellen eignen.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde erfolgreich eine neue Gasphasen-Apparatur für
Photoelektronen-Imaging-Experimente simuliert, aufgebaut und in Verbindung mit einem ps-Lasersystem in Betrieb genommen.
Neben dem Aufbau der Apparatur stand die Aufklärung der Dynamik angeregter Zustände von aromatischen Heterocyclen und Pyrenen im Fokus dieser Arbeit. Die untersuchten Moleküle wurden durch Resonanzverstärkte Mehrphotonenionisation in einem Molekularstrahlexperiment sowohl zeit-, als auch frequenzaufgelöst untersucht.
Theory predicts peculiar features for excited-state dynamics in one dimension (1D) that are difficult to be observed experimentally. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are an excellent approximation to 1D quantum confinement, due to their very high aspect ratio and low density of defects. Here we use ultrafast optical spectroscopy to probe photogenerated charge-carriers in (6,5) semiconducting SWNTs. We identify the transient energy shift of the highly polarizable S\(_{33}\) transition as a sensitive fingerprint of charge-carriers in SWNTs. By measuring the coherent phonon amplitude profile we obtain a precise estimate of the Stark-shift and discuss the binding energy of the S\(_{33}\) excitonic transition. From this, we infer that charge-carriers are formed instantaneously (<50 fs) even upon pumping the first exciton, S\(_{11}\). The decay of the photogenerated charge-carrier population is well described by a model for geminate recombination in 1D.