Obtaining Accurate Measurements of Organic Dye Solutions using Pulsed Laser PhotothermalDeflection Spectroscopy

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title

Analytical Chemistry

Publication Date

1995

Volume

67

First Page

2672

Abstract

Organic dye molecules having a finite triplet quantum yield are shown to yield anomalous photothermal signals magnitudes when pulsed laser excitation is used. These anomalous signals can be due to optical bleaching of the electronic singlet states with subsequent optical absorp- tion within the triplet spin state manifold. A model based on excitation and excited state relaxation rate expressions is derived and applied to the analysis of excitation laser irradiancedependent photothermal signal magnitude data. The model is found to fit the experimental results very precisely. It is subsequently used to correct the photo- thermal signal at high irradiances and to deduce photo- dynamic parameters from the studied molecule. Regression of the model to the excitation irradiance-dependent data allows determination of the T2 - TI relaxation rate constant and the triplet state cross absorption section. Model regression is applied to the analyses of erythrosin in water and ethanol solvent and of eosin and 1 , 1'-diethyl-2,2'-cyanine iodide dyes in ethanol solutions. A method for quantitative determination of analyte concentration is developed.

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