FIELD-INDUCED EXCITON BREAKING IN CONJUGATED POLYMERS

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作者
ARKHIPOV, VI
BASSLER, H
DEUSSEN, M
GOBEL, EO
KERSTING, R
KURZ, H
LEMMER, U
MAHRT, RF
机构
[1] UNIV MARBURG,ZENTRUM MAT WISSENSCH,D-35032 MARBURG,GERMANY
[2] RHEIN WESTFAL TH AACHEN,INST HALBLEITERTECH 2,D-52074 AACHEN,GERMANY
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 52卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.52.4932
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We have investigated the held-induced quenching of photoluminescence in a film of poly(p-phenylphenylenevinylene) (PPPV) blended with polycarbonate (PC). Upon applying a dc field less than or equal to 3 X 10(6) V cm(-1) a reduction of the luminescence yield up to 30% is observed. Time-resolved photoluminescence measurements using the fs-upconversion technique show that the quenching effect evolves on a time scale 0.5 to similar to 100 ps after excitation. We explain this ultrafast temporal behavior of the quenching process in terms of a field-assisted dissociation of neutral singlet excitations into geminate electron-hole pairs while undergoing a random walk among polymer segments. Our model implies that photocarrier generation is a secondary process resulting from exciton dissociation.
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页码:4932 / 4940
页数:9
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