Spin-dependent spectroscopy of photoexcitations in conducting polymers and fullerenes

Xing Wei; Z. Valy Vardeny; Bret C. Hess

doi:10.1117/12.59308

14 May 1992 Spin-dependent spectroscopy of photoexcitations in conducting polymers and fullerenes

Xing Wei, Z. Valy Vardeny, Bret C. Hess

Proceedings Volume 1636, Applied Spectroscopy in Materials Science II; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59308
Event: OE/LASE '92, 1992, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

We have used the novel technique of absorption detected magnetic resonance (ADMR) to investigate the photoexcitation properties in conducting polymers and fullerene C₆₀ films. In conducting polymers we have identified both charged and neutral long-lived photoexcitations with distinct different properties in polymers with degenerate (trans polyacetylene; t-(CH)_x) and nondegenerate (polyparaphenylene vinylene; PPV) ground state backbone structure. In t-(CH)_x the photocarriers are charged solitons and the neutral photoexcitations are spin ½ soliton pairs, whereas the photoexcitations in PPV form charge bipolarons and triplet excitons. The neutral photoexcitations in C₆₀/polystyrene "glass" are triplet excitons identified in ADMR through the triplet "powder-pattern" around g = 2.003.

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Xing Wei, Z. Valy Vardeny, and Bret C. Hess "Spin-dependent spectroscopy of photoexcitations in conducting polymers and fullerenes", Proc. SPIE 1636, Applied Spectroscopy in Materials Science II, (14 May 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59308

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