Vibronic coupling in the ground and excited states of the naphthalene cation

Demetrio A. da Silva Filho; Rainer Friedlein; Veaceslav Coropceanu; Gunnar Öhrwall; Wojciech Osikowicz; Christian Suess; Stacey L. Sorensen; Svante Svensson; William R. Salaneck; Jean-Luc Brédas

doi:10.1039/B403828B

Vibronic coupling in the ground and excited states of the naphthalenecation

Demetrio A. da Silva Filho,^a Rainer Friedlein,^b Veaceslav Coropceanu,*^a Gunnar Öhrwall,^c Wojciech Osikowicz,^b Christian Suess,^b Stacey L. Sorensen,^d Svante Svensson,^c William R. Salaneck^b and Jean-Luc Brédas*^a

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^a School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400
E-mail: veaceslav.coropceanu@chemistry.gatech.edu, jean-luc.bredas@chemistry.gatech.edu

^b Department of Physics (IFM), Linköping University, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden

^c Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Box 530, S-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden

^d Department of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Institute of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden

Abstract

The hole–vibrational coupling in naphthalene is studied using high-resolution gas-phase photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations (DFT), and a remarkable increase of the coupling with low-frequency vibrations is observed in the excited states.

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Vibronic coupling in the ground and excited states of the naphthalenecation

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