A combined experimental and theoretical study of relaxation dynamics in the charge-density-wave system TbTe3 shows, how a dynamical insulator-to-metal transition affects fundamental interactions, such as electron-electron and electron-phonon scattering. Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy utilizes optical excitation to transiently alter the energy gap and reveals a concurrent, highly unusual transient modulation of the relaxation rates of excited photocarriers.
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Singlet exciton fission (SEF) is a process occurring in several organic semiconductors by which an electronically excited singlet exciton spontaneously splits into two triplet excitons. The SEF properties, such as yields and rates, depend crucially on the molecular structure and intermolecular interactions. This calls for an experimental technique that can probe the structural changes accompanying the SEF process at the relevant time and length scales.
In a study published in Science Advances, we [more...]