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Grünbaum, Tobias ; Milster, Sebastian ; Kraus, Hermann ; Ratzke, Wolfram ; Kurrmann, Simon ; Zeller, Viola ; Bange, Sebastian ; Boehme, Christoph ; Lupton, John M.

OLEDs as models for bird magnetoception: detecting electron spin resonance in geomagnetic fields

Grünbaum, Tobias , Milster, Sebastian, Kraus, Hermann, Ratzke, Wolfram, Kurrmann, Simon, Zeller, Viola, Bange, Sebastian , Boehme, Christoph und Lupton, John M. (2019) OLEDs as models for bird magnetoception: detecting electron spin resonance in geomagnetic fields. Faraday Discussions 221, S. 92-109.

Veröffentlichungsdatum dieses Volltextes: 10 Jan 2020 12:00
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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.41348


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Certain species of living creatures are known to orientate themselves in the geomagnetic field. Given the small magnitude of approximately 48 mu T, the underlying quantum mechanical phenomena are expected to exhibit coherence times in the microsecond regime. In this contribution, we show the sensitivity of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to magnetic fields far below Earth's magnetic field, ...

Certain species of living creatures are known to orientate themselves in the geomagnetic field. Given the small magnitude of approximately 48 mu T, the underlying quantum mechanical phenomena are expected to exhibit coherence times in the microsecond regime. In this contribution, we show the sensitivity of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to magnetic fields far below Earth's magnetic field, suggesting that coherence times of the spins of charge-carrier pairs in these devices can be similarly long. By electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments, a lower bound for the coherence time can be assessed directly. Moreover, this technique offers the possibility to determine the distribution of hyperfine fields within the organic semiconductor layer. We extend this technique to a material system exhibiting both fluorescence and phosphorescence, demonstrating stable anticorrelation between optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectra in the singlet (fluorescence) and triplet (phosphorescence) channels. The experiments demonstrate the extreme sensitivity of OLEDs to both static as well as dynamic magnetic fields and suggest that coherent spin precession processes of coulombically bound electron-spin pairs may play a crucial role in the magnetoreceptive ability of living creatures.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftFaraday Discussions
Verlag:ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Ort der Veröffentlichung:CAMBRIDGE
Band:221
Seitenbereich:S. 92-109
Datum25 September 2019
InstitutionenPhysik > Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik
Physik > Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik > Lehrstuhl Professor Lupton > Arbeitsgruppe John Lupton
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10.1039/c9fd00047jDOI
Stichwörter / KeywordsRADICAL-PAIR MECHANISM; MAGNETIC-FIELD; ROOM-TEMPERATURE; TRIPLET EMITTERS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; KINETICS; DEVICES; MOTION; FILMS;
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
Dokumenten-ID41348

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