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Phys. Rev. E 52, 5178–5194 (1995)

Classical model for energy transfer in microspherical droplets

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Andrew C. Pineda
Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

David Ronis
Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6

Received 2 May 1995; published in the issue dated November 1995

A classical electrodynamic model for energy transfer between donor and acceptor molecules in which the molecules are modeled using Drude oscillators is presented for dye solutions in the form of micrometer-sized droplets. The model incorporates multiparticle scattering effects by means of a binary collision expansion. Enhanced energy transfer rates and nontrivial concentration effects appear due to the Mie resonances of the droplet. Theory is discussed in light of the experiments of L. M. Folan, S. Arnold, and S. D. Druger [Chem. Phys. Lett. 118, 322 (1985)].

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.52.5178
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.52.5178
PACS:
78.55.Bq, 05.20.-y, 78.70.-g