Conformational disorder and energy migration in MEH-PPV with partially broken conjugation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 7644-7650

  Grage, M M L ^a   Wood, P W ^b   Ruseckas, A ^a,b   Pullerits, T ^a   Mitchell, W ^c   Burn, P L ^c   Samuel, I D W ^b   Sundstrom V ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYOLEFINS; REACTION KINETICS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CONFORMATIONAL DISORDER; CONJUGATION; ELECTRON DELOCALIZATION; ENERGY MIGRATION; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYTHIOPHENES; ULTRAFAST TRANSIENT ABSORPTION ANISOTROPY; VINYLENE LINKAGE DOUBLE BONDS;

AROMATIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0038060688     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1562190     Document Type: Article

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