Ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy of electronic excitation transfer in random molecular systems and in photosynthetic antennae
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:6475786
Optical pump-probe (transient absorption) spectroscopy was used to study excitation energy transfer (EET) in random molecular systems and in antenna complexes of photosynthetic organisms. Energy transfer was first studied for Rhodamine 640 adsorbed on ZnO and fused silica surfaces at submonolayer coverage. Also, EET experiments were performed on solutions of Rhodamine 640 in glycerol using both absorption depolarization and the well-known technique of fluorescence depolarization using time-correlated single photon counting. Data from both techniques match within experimental error theoretical predictions, showing the validity of pump-probe techniques in studying EET. The absorption depolarization of the Q/sub x/ electronic transitions in BChl a-protein from P. aestuarii was monitored, and the anisotropy was found to decay to a constant, nonzero value due to nonrandom chromophore orientations. The timescale of depolarization was found to be consistent with transfer between delocalized exciton states. Results of experiments on the core antenna complex of photosystem I were remarkably similar. 279 refs., 52 figs., 9 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Ames Lab., IA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-82
- OSTI ID:
- 6475786
- Report Number(s):
- IS-T-1383; ON: DE89007677
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400500* -- Photochemistry
550700 -- Microbiology
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ABSORPTION
AMINES
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DEPOLARIZATION
DYES
ENERGY LEVELS
ENERGY TRANSFER
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EXCITATION
FOOD
HETEROCYCLIC ACIDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
MINERALS
MOLECULES
OPTICAL PUMPING
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDE MINERALS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
PLANTS
PROTEINS
PUMPING
REAGENTS
RHODAMINES
SILICA
SILICON COMPOUNDS
SILICON OXIDES
SPECTROSCOPY
SPINACH
SYNTHESIS
VEGETABLES
ZINC COMPOUNDS
ZINC OXIDES
400500* -- Photochemistry
550700 -- Microbiology
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ABSORPTION
AMINES
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DEPOLARIZATION
DYES
ENERGY LEVELS
ENERGY TRANSFER
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EXCITATION
FOOD
HETEROCYCLIC ACIDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
MINERALS
MOLECULES
OPTICAL PUMPING
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDE MINERALS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
PLANTS
PROTEINS
PUMPING
REAGENTS
RHODAMINES
SILICA
SILICON COMPOUNDS
SILICON OXIDES
SPECTROSCOPY
SPINACH
SYNTHESIS
VEGETABLES
ZINC COMPOUNDS
ZINC OXIDES