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- | The fluorescence lifetime of a dye measured with a TCSPC spectrometer can be multiexponential due to many reasons. The most obvious cases are due to scattering or presence of impurities. Although less obvious, it is also widely known that in an inhomogeneous media a pure dye will also exhibit a multiexponential decay. Advanced users know that if the decay is not measured with polarizers at magic angle, the rotation correlation time shows up as a second exponential in the decay (the second exponential is in fact the product of the rotation correlation time by the fluorescence lifetime, divided by their sum). And they also know that measuring without polarizers is not equivalent to measure at magic angle... | + | The fluorescence lifetime of a dye measured with a TCSPC spectrometer can be multiexponential due to many reasons. The most obvious cases are due to scattering or presence of impurities. Although less obvious, it is also widely known that in an inhomogeneous media a pure dye will also exhibit a multiexponential decay. Advanced users know that if the decay is not measured with polarizers at magic angle, the rotation correlation time shows up as a second exponential in the decay (the second exponential is in fact the product of the rotation correlation time by the fluorescence lifetime, divided by their sum). And they also know that measuring without polarizers is not equivalent to measure at magic angle... |
But it is worth noting that even at magic angle in a perfectly aligned spectrometer pure dyes in homogeneous media may exhibit a multiexponential decay. The origin may be physical, like solvent relaxation, or chemical, when the fluorescent molecule undergoes a ground or excited state reaction. In this brief article | But it is worth noting that even at magic angle in a perfectly aligned spectrometer pure dyes in homogeneous media may exhibit a multiexponential decay. The origin may be physical, like solvent relaxation, or chemical, when the fluorescent molecule undergoes a ground or excited state reaction. In this brief article |
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