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Title: Excitations and Optical Properties of Phenylene Based Polymers

Conference ·
OSTI ID:760137

A complex picture of phenylene-based polymers is developed which unifies features of band and molecular exciton models. It incorporates major experimental finding in direct, and photoinduced optical absorption, stimulated photoemission and photoconductivity. The authors give new assignments for the most disputed features and identify new ones as edge states. The authors confirm a low binding energy for the principle emitting exciton and show that it dominates also in the fundamental absorption. Contradictions in the current modeling state-of-art are displayed and discussed.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
760137
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-98-4143; TRN: AH200029%%120
Resource Relation:
Conference: International Conference Synthetic Metals, Montpelier (FR), 07/1998; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jul 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English