{"id":125653,"date":"2021-07-29T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-single-molecule-laser-nanospectroscopy-technique-with-micro-electron-volt-energy-resolution"},"modified":"2021-07-29T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T05:23:07","slug":"a-single-molecule-laser-nanospectroscopy-technique-with-micro-electron-volt-energy-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-single-molecule-laser-nanospectroscopy-technique-with-micro-electron-volt-energy-resolution","title":{"rendered":"A single-molecule laser nanospectroscopy technique with micro-electron volt energy resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-single-molecule-laser-nanospectroscopy-technique-with-micro-electron-volt-energy-resolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When molecules are excited, they can give rise to a variety of energy conversion phenomena, such as light emission and photoelectric or photochemical conversion. To unlock new energy conversion functions in organic materials, researchers should be able to understand the nature of a material\u2019s excited state and control it.<\/p>\n<p>So far, many scientists have used spectroscopy techniques based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a> in research focusing on excited states. Nonetheless, they were unable to use <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> light to examine nanoscale materials, due to its limitations in so-called diffraction. The spectroscopic measurement methods applied to electron and scanning probe microscopes that can observe substances with atomic resolutions, on the other hand, are still underdeveloped.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at RIKEN, the Japan <i>Science<\/i> and Technology Agency (JST), University of Tokyo and other Institutes in Japan have recently developed a laser nanospectroscopy technique that could be used to examine individual molecules. This technique, presented in a paper published in <i>Science<\/i>, could open up new possibilities for the development of various new technologies, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), photovoltaics and photosynthetic cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When molecules are excited, they can give rise to a variety of energy conversion phenomena, such as light emission and photoelectric or photochemical conversion. To unlock new energy conversion functions in organic materials, researchers should be able to understand the nature of a material\u2019s excited state and control it. So far, many scientists have used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}