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CHEM01200604009 Sreejith Kaniyankandy - Homi Bhabha ...

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as compared to that of GO. It is clearly seen that transient signal intensity increases<br />

dramatically in RGO-2 as compared that of GO. Transient spectrum broad absorption in the<br />

visible region (500 nm to 700 nm) shows higher absorption in the blue region of the<br />

spectrum. Furthermore the broad feature at 670nm is significantly reduced indicating that this<br />

feature might come from oxygen related trap state absorptions. We have monitored the<br />

transient decay kinetics at 670 nm and shown in inset of Figure 6.7.<br />

A (m O.D.)<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0.1ps<br />

0.4ps<br />

1ps<br />

4ps<br />

10ps<br />

100ps<br />

A (m O.D.)<br />

12<br />

8<br />

670 nm<br />

4<br />

0<br />

0 50 100<br />

Time Delay (ps)<br />

0<br />

500 550 600 650 700<br />

Wavelength (nm)<br />

Figure 6.7: Transient absorption spectra of reduced (24 hours) graphene oxide (RGO-2) at different<br />

time delay after exciting 400 nm laser pulse. Inset: Transient decay kinetics at 670 nm.<br />

The transient data can be fitted multiexponentially with time constants of τ 1 = 0.26 ps (65%),<br />

τ 2 = 2.5 ps (24.5%), τ 3 = 30 ps (6.5%), τ 4 = >400 ps (4%) (Table 6.2).

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