Quasi-line Spectral Emissions from Highly Crystalline One-Dimensional Organic Nanowires

Zero-phonon line (ZPL) emissions have key applications in single-photon emission sources, quantum information processing, and single-molecule spectroscopy. All recent attempts to realize ZPL emissions are based on the techniques of confining and doping molecules in matrixes or solutions in lowerature Shpol'skii systems. The requirement of two-component systems reduces the light emission efficiency from the molecules and limits their applications in solid-state electronic applications and quantum computing devices. Here, we report the first experimental demonstration of the Shpol'skii effect in a one-component organic solid-state system at low temperature. We observe a ZPL emission with a width of â ¼1 to 2 nm and a high value of the Debye-Waller factor (0.72) from our epitaxially grown highly crystalline and ordered 1D organic nanowire, which is attributed to a specific molecular configuration and a higher degree of molecular orientation as compared to that of the bulk thin film counterpart. Our results pave the way for organic 1D wires (with quasi-line spectra) for applications in lasing, nanosensors, and interconnects/functional units in next-generation miniaturized optoelectronics.