SEMINAR: Bayliss Seminar Series:

Ultrafast spectroscopy can provide a host of valuable information on the nature of and coupling between electronically excited states of molecules.

Experimental techniques such as femtosecond optically gated (FOG) fluorescence and broadband transient absorption (TA) can yield complementary information, often allowing assignment of excited state spin and orbital parentage, and providing detailed information concerning rate constants, energy levels, vibrational structures, and excited state relaxation processes.

Recent results will be presented for a variety of lanthanide complexes undertaken in the newly established Photochemistry and Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy labs at UQ. These compounds have a range of applications as highly luminescent materials for probes for biology.