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Breaking Kasha's rule

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The emission of visible light from a dye encapsulated within a carbon nanotube gives great hope and new opportunities for the design of nanoscale optoelectronic devices.

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Figure 1: Schematic of excited energy decay processes.

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  1. Kazuhiro Yanagi is at the Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan,

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  2. Hiromichi Kataura is at the Nanotechnology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8562, Japan. h-kataura@aist.go.jp,

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Yanagi, K., Kataura, H. Breaking Kasha's rule. Nature Photon 4, 200–201 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.77

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