Professor Frank Spano — Selected Publications

Spano FC.; Meskers SCJ.; Hennebicq E.; Beljonne D. "Probing excitation delocalization in supramolecular chiral stacks by means of circularly polarized light: Experiment and modeling". Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (22): 7044-7054 (2007).

Clark J.; Silva C.; Friend RH.; Spano FC. "Role of intermolecular coupling in the photophysics of disordered organic semiconductors: Aggregate emission in regioregular polythiophene". Physical Review Letters 98 (20): 206506 (2007).

Zhao Z.; Spano FC. "Multiple mode exciton-phonon coupling: applications to photoluminescence in oligothiophene thin films".  Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111 (16): 6113-6123 (2007).

Spano FC. "Absorption in regio-regular poly(3-hexyl)thiophene thin films: Fermi resonances, interband coupling and disorder". Chemical Physics 325 (1): 22-35 (2006).

Spano FC. "Excitons in conjugated oligomer aggregates, films, and crystals". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 57: 217-243 (2006).

Kirova T.; Spano FC . " Designing molecular eigenstates in a four-level Lambda system". Physical Review A 71 (6): Art. No. 063816 (2005).

Spano FC .   " Modeling disorder in polymer aggregates: The optical spectroscopy of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films". Journal of Chemical Physics 122 (23): Art. No. 234701 (2005).

Zhao Z.; Spano FC . "Vibronic fine structure in the absorption spectrum of oligothiophene thin films". Journal of Chemical Physics 122 (11): Art. No. 114701 (2005).

Sang-Hyun Lim, Thomas G. Bjorklund, Frank C. Spano and Christopher J. Bardeen, “Exciton Delocalization and Superradiance in Tetracene Thin Films and Nanoaggregates”. Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press).

H. Sun, Z. Zhao, F. C. Spano, D. Beljonne, J. Cornil, Z. Shuai and J-L. Bredas, “Absorption and Emission in Quaterthienyl Thin Films,” Advanced Materials (2003), 15, 818.

F. C. Spano, "The Fundamental Photophysics of Conjugated Oligomer Herringbone Aggregates", J. Chem. Phys. (2003),118, 981.

F. C. Spano, "Absorption and Emission oligo-Phenylene Vinylene Nanoaggregates: the Role of Disorder and Structural Defects", J. Chem. Phys. (2002),116, 5877.

J. Qi, F. C. Spano, T. Kirova, A. Lazoudis, J. Magnes, L. Li, L. M. Narducci, R. W. Field, and A. M. Lyyra, “Measurement of Transition Dipole Moments in Lithium Dimers Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency”, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2002), 88.

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