Theory of carrier injection into a polymer chain: Polaronic effects

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 943041-943045

  Basko, D M ^a   Conwell, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; THEORY;

EID: 0036751877     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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19. Strictly speaking, the situation for polyacetylene is more complicated than that described by our simple model due to the Peierls dimerization. However, as our resulting expressions contain characteristics of the polaronic state in a given material (the binding energy and the size), we can use them as effective input parameters. Polaron characteristics were calculated for polyacetylene (Ref. 8), those for PPV [H. A. Mizes and E. M. Conwell, Synth. Met. 68, 145 (1995)] are similar.