Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-09-08
Phys Rev B 78, 235109 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages,4 figures, submitted to Phys Rev B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.235109
We develop a theory of the electronic structure and photophysics of interacting chains of \pi- conjugated polymers to understand the differences between solutions and films. While photoexcitation generates only the intrachain exciton in solutions, the optical exciton as well as weakly allowed charge-transfer excitons are generated in films. We extend existing theories of the lowest polaronpair and charge-transfer excitons to obtain descriptions of the excited states of these interchain species, and show that a significant fraction of ultrafast photoinduced absorptions in films originate from the lowest charge-transfer exciton. Our proposed mechanism explains the simultaneous observation of polaronlike induced absorption features peculiar to films in ultrafast spectroscopy and the absence of mobile charge carriers as deduced from other experiments. We also show that there is a 1:1 correspondence between the essential states that describe the photophysics of single chains and of interacting chains that constitute thin films.
Mazumdar Sumit
Shukla Alok
Wang Zhendong
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