Abstract
The physics of collective optical response of molecular assemblies, pioneered by Dicke in 1954, has long been at the center of theoretical and experimental scrutiny. The influence of the environment on such phenomena is also of great interest due to various important applications in, e.g., energy conversion devices. In this Letter, we demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically the spatial modulations of the collective decay rates of molecules placed in proximity to a metal interface. We show in a very simple framework how the cooperative optical response can be analyzed in terms of intermolecular correlations causing interference between the response of different molecules and the polarization induced on a nearby metallic boundary and predict similar collective interference phenomena in excitation energy transfer between molecular aggregates.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 5790-5795 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Nano Letters |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 14 2019 |
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Keywords
- Collective fluorescence
- energy transfer
- superradiance
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Bioengineering
- Chemistry(all)
- Materials Science(all)
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanical Engineering
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Energy Transfer and Interference by Collective Electromagnetic Coupling. / Gómez-Castaño, Mayte; Redondo-Cubero, Andrés; Buisson, Lionel; Pau, Jose Luis; Mihi, Agustin; Ravaine, Serge; Vallée, Renaud A.L.; Nitzan, Abraham; Sukharev, Maxim.
In: Nano Letters, Vol. 19, No. 8, 14.08.2019, p. 5790-5795.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Energy Transfer and Interference by Collective Electromagnetic Coupling
AU - Gómez-Castaño, Mayte
AU - Redondo-Cubero, Andrés
AU - Buisson, Lionel
AU - Pau, Jose Luis
AU - Mihi, Agustin
AU - Ravaine, Serge
AU - Vallée, Renaud A.L.
AU - Nitzan, Abraham
AU - Sukharev, Maxim
PY - 2019/8/14
Y1 - 2019/8/14
N2 - The physics of collective optical response of molecular assemblies, pioneered by Dicke in 1954, has long been at the center of theoretical and experimental scrutiny. The influence of the environment on such phenomena is also of great interest due to various important applications in, e.g., energy conversion devices. In this Letter, we demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically the spatial modulations of the collective decay rates of molecules placed in proximity to a metal interface. We show in a very simple framework how the cooperative optical response can be analyzed in terms of intermolecular correlations causing interference between the response of different molecules and the polarization induced on a nearby metallic boundary and predict similar collective interference phenomena in excitation energy transfer between molecular aggregates.
AB - The physics of collective optical response of molecular assemblies, pioneered by Dicke in 1954, has long been at the center of theoretical and experimental scrutiny. The influence of the environment on such phenomena is also of great interest due to various important applications in, e.g., energy conversion devices. In this Letter, we demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically the spatial modulations of the collective decay rates of molecules placed in proximity to a metal interface. We show in a very simple framework how the cooperative optical response can be analyzed in terms of intermolecular correlations causing interference between the response of different molecules and the polarization induced on a nearby metallic boundary and predict similar collective interference phenomena in excitation energy transfer between molecular aggregates.
KW - Collective fluorescence
KW - energy transfer
KW - superradiance
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02521
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JO - Nano Letters
JF - Nano Letters
SN - 1530-6984
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