title: Linewidth-limited energy transfer in single conjugated polymer molecules.
abstract: Using low temperature single molecule spectroscopy on rigid-rod conjugated polymers we are able to identify homogeneously broadened, strongly polarized emission from individual chromophore units on a single chain. Gated fluorescence spectroscopy allows real time imaging of intramolecular energy transfer as the chain behaves as a series of weakly interacting chromophores. Energy transfer is controlled by the chromophoric spectral linewidth, which depends on temperature. Linewidths exceeding intramolecular disorder lead to incoherent chromophore coupling and collective fluorescence phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, Physics Department and CeNS, University of Munich, 80799 Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Lemmer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Raschke
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Anni
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Scherf
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lupton
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feldmann