A new kind of molecular material, built from the bottom up using carbon atoms (see caption for image details) (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

A new kind of molecular material, built from the bottom up using carbon atoms (see caption for image details)

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Top panel: the molecular structure and the two electron spins shown in the antiparallel singlet state

Middle panel:  the electron (red) and hole (blue) wavefunctions following charge transfer in the spin singlet state

Bottom panel:   different colours of luminescence  from the singlet state (zero magnetic field) and the triplet state (high magnetic field)

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Cavendish Laboratory

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