Superradiance in Molecular H Aggregates

Direct evidence of superradiance from an organic semiconductor (quaterthiophene) whose molecules are arranged in a H aggregate fashion, is reported. Time resolved photoluminescence measurements show a linear correlation between the radiative lifetime (tau(rad)) of the purely electronic exciton recombination and the inverse of the number (N(C)) of the coherently emitting dipoles, i.e., tau(rad) proportional, variant 1/N(C). These data support the recently developed theoretical models describing the optical properties of H aggregates of rodlike molecules with a nonvanishing component of the perpendicular molecular transition dipole moment.