Resonant confinement of excitonic polariton and ultra-efficient light harvest in artificial photosynthesis
arXiv:1811.10131 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.257402
Abstract
We show that in the recent artificial light-harvesting experiment [Angewandte Chemie Intl. Ed. 55, 2759 (2016)] on organic nanocrystals self-assembled from difluoroboron chromophores, the spontaneous emission of an excited pigment should undergo a two-step process. It would first decay to an excitonic polariton confined by cavity resonance via strong photon-exciton coupling. The captive intermediate could then funnel the energy directly to doped acceptors, leading to the observed over 90% transfer efficiency at less than 1/1000 acceptor-donor ratio. Theoretical, parameter-free analyses are in quantitative agreement with the experiment.
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