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Photogeneration Action Spectroscopy of Neutral and Charged Excitations in Films of a Ladder-Type Poly(Para-Phenylene)
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Photogeneration Action Spectroscopy of Neutral and Charged Excitations in Films of a Ladder-Type Poly(Para-Phenylene)

Markus Wohlgenannt, W. Graupner, G. Leising and Z.V. Vardeny
Physical Review Letters, Vol.82(16), pp.3344-3347
04/01/1999
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3344

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Abstract

The photogeneration quantum efficiency action spectra of long-lived neutral and charged excitations in films of a ladder-type poly(para-phenylene) were measured. We found that both triplet and polaron action spectra show, in addition to a step function increase at the optical gap, a monotonic rise at higher energies. For triplets this rise is explained by singlet exciton fission into triplet pairs from which the triplet exciton energy in the gap was obtained; this energy was also confirmed by measuring the weak phosphorescence band. For polarons the photogeneration increase at high energies is modeled by a novel hot electron interchain tunneling process. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}
Materials Science Thin Films EMISSION SPECTRA ENERGY GAP EXCITONS PHOSPHORESCENCE POLARONS POLYMERS POLYPHENYLS

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