The nature of interchain excitations in conjugated polymers: Spatially-varying interfacial solvatochromism of annealed MEH-PPV films studied by near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM)

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 106, Issue 37, 2002, Pages 9496-9506

  Schaller, Richard D ^a   Lee, Lynn F ^a   Johnson, Justin C ^a   Haber, Louis H ^a   Saykally, Richard J ^a   Vieceli, John ^b   Benjamin, Ilan ^b   Nguyen, Thuc Quyen ^c,d   Schwartz, Benjamin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; GROUND STATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SEPARATION;

SOLVATOCHROMISM;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0037136639     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp015618p     Document Type: Article

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