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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 106: Scanning Probe Microscopy: Light Matter Interaction at Atomic Scales IV
O 106.8: Talk
Friday, March 22, 2024, 12:30–12:45, MA 041
Hot luminescence from single-molecule chromophores electrically and mechanically self-decoupled by tripodal scaffolds — •Vibhuti Rai1,2, Nico Balzer3, Gabriel Derenbach1, Christof Holzer4, Marcel Mayor3, Wulf Wulfhekel1, Lukas Gerhard1, and Michal Valášek3 — 1Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany — 2Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics, Arnimallee 14,14195 Berlin, Germany — 3Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany — 4Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Control over the electrical contact to an individual molecule is one of the biggest challenges in molecular optoelectronics. Chemical route of anchoring individual chromophores via extended tripodal scaffolds is a promising approach for efficient electrical decoupling from metallic leads [1]. Here, we show that NDI chromophores coupled to a gold substrate via a tripodal scaffold and via a vacuum barrier to the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope enable spectrally and spatially resolved electroluminescence. We show that specific vibrons of the chromophore which are mechanically decoupled from the substrate give rise to hot-luminescence (HL) bands. Vibrons which are coupled to the substrate do not show HL.
[1] Rai, V. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 036201 (2023).
Keywords: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy; Nanoplasmonics; Light-matter interaction; Single-molecule electroluminescence; self-assembly