Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Graham R. Fleming

June 2002

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Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Graham R. Fleming

Energy Transfer in Confined Geometries

Light Harvesting Timescales

Pigments From a Portion of the LH2 Ring

Lighting up “dark states”

Carotenoid S1 lifetimes in bacterial LH2

Rhodopin Glucoside S1 6-31++g**/TDDFT

Car S1 - BChl Qy coupling: estimated from experiments and ab initio calculations

Car S1 - BChl Qy Coulomb coupling: Rhodopin Glucoside vs. a symmetric polyene with a zero transition moment

Transition Density Cube Method

Light Harvesting Complex 2 from Rhodopseudomonas Acidophila Strain 10050

Photon Echo Technique

Strongly Coupled Molecular Systems

Molecular Hamiltonian of Aggregates

Scheme of the Model Calculation

Simulation of Absorption and 3PEPS of B850 of LH2

Exciton Wave Functions of B850 Band of LH2

Photosynthesis in Plants 

Photosystem I 

PSI Chlorophyll Excitation Energies

Photosystem I: Calculated Absorption Spectrum

Photosystem II Supercomplex

What is NPQ? 

Necessary Components of NPQ (qE) 

Acknowledgements

Author: Graham Fleming

Email: GRFleming@lbl.gov

Home Page: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~grfgrp