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ArticleNature communications2025

Disentangling the components of a multiconfigurational excited state in isolated chromophore with light-scanning-tunneling microscopy.

Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Ferreira, Amandeep Sagwal, Jiří Doležal, Tomáš Neuman, Martin Švec

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors.

Rodrigo Cezar de Campos FerreiraInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnická 10/112, CZ16200, Praha 6, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9866-7238
Amandeep SagwalInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnická 10/112, CZ16200, Praha 6, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4479-9104
Jiří DoležalInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnická 10/112, CZ16200, Praha 6, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3365-5068
Tomáš NeumanInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnická 10/112, CZ16200, Praha 6, Czech Republic. neuman@fzu.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3089-5805
Martin ŠvecInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnická 10/112, CZ16200, Praha 6, Czech Republic. svec@fzu.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0369-8144

Funding

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | Ústav Organické Chemie a Biochemie, Akademie Věd České Republiky (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS) IOCB FellowshipAkademie Věd České Republiky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Lumina Quaeruntur fellowshipMinisterstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) LM2018140Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) LM2023051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular radicals are efficient electroluminescent emitters due to the spin multiplicity of their electronic states. The excited states often exhibit a complex composition with multiple significant electronic configurations, which are essential for their optoelectronic properties but difficult to probe directly. Here we use light-scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate such an excited state by visualizing the response of a single radical molecule to a laser excitation. We observe characteristic atomic-scale spatial photocurrent patterns that can be tuned by applied bias voltage. We interpret these patterns as resulting from decay of an excited doublet state through sequential electron transfers with the tip and the substrate. The relative contributions of two dominating electronic configurations involved in this excited state are tuned by the applied voltage. This approach thus allows for disentangling the components of multiconfigurational excited states in single molecules.

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