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What is Radiationless processes?

Also known as: vibrational relaxation · internal conversion · intersystem crossing

Definition 7.12 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 7 — Electronic Spectroscopy and Photophysics

Vibrational relaxation brings an excited molecule to the lowest vibrational level of its electronic state by collisions, in picoseconds. Internal conversion is a radiationless transition between states of the same multiplicity (S2→S1S_2 \to S_1, S1→S0S_1 \to S_0); intersystem crossing one between states of different multiplicity (S1→T1S_1 \to T_1, T1→S0T_1 \to S_0).

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