Al Marchetti



Research Interests:
Spectroscopy and photophysics of organic molecules, metal organic complexes and dyes. Singlet-singlet and singlet-triplet absorption and emission. Stark and Zeeman spectroscopy. Optically detected magnetic resonance. Quantum size effects. Photophysics of wide gap semiconductors particularly silver halides and materials with forbidden band to band transitions. Photophysics of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic solar cells.


Recent Publications:
  • Integer Charge Transfer States in OLEDs: Optical Detection of Hole Carriers at the Anode/Organic Interface by A. P. Marchetti, K. E Sassin, R. H. Young, L. J. Rothberg, and D. Y. Kondakov,J. Appl. Phys. 109, 013709 (2011)
  • Highly Luminescent Tetradentate Bis-Cyclometalated Platinum Complexes: Design, Synthesis, Structure, Photophysics, and Electroluminescence Application by Dileep A. K. Vezzu, J. C. Deaton, J. S. Jones, L. Bartolotti, C. F. Harris, A. P. Marchetti, M. Kondakova, R. D. Pike, and S. Huo, Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 5107
  • Luminescence quenching by charge carriers in organic light-emitting diodes, Wyman, M., Marchetti, A., Rothberg, L. J., Young, R. H., and Kondakov, D. Y. Digest of Technical Papers - Society for Information Display International Symposium 2009, 40, 306-309
  • Narrow-Line and Broadband Spectra of Iridium(III) Complexes in a Shpolskii Matrix and an Amorphous Host, A. P. Marchetti, J. C. Deaton and R. H. Young, J. Phys. Chem., (2006)
  • Charge-Induced Luminescence Quenching in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, T. Haskins, A. Chowdhury, R. H.. Young, J. R. Lenhard, A. P. Marchetti and L. J. Rothberg, Chem. Mater., 16, 4675 (2004).
  • Nanoregions of fcc AgI in AgBr microcrystals, A. P. Marchetti, J. C. Hansen, S. Chen, M. Irving, R. Baetzold and B. R. Sever, Phys. Rev. B, 69, 094107 (2004).


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    Contact: 585-273-5259; amarchet@rochester.rr.com