Spin-conserving carrier recombination in conjugated polymers

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 340-346

  Reufer, Martin ^a   Walter, Manfred J ^a   Lagoudakis, Pavlos G ^a   Hummel, Anne Beate ^b   Kolb, Johanna S ^b   Roskos, Hartmut G ^b   Scherf, Ullrich ^c   Lupton, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL RELAXATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; EXCITONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLARONS; REACTION KINETICS;

CARRIER RECOMBINATION; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING (ISC); POLARON PAIR (PP); POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES (PLED);

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

HYDROCARBON; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; MAGNETISM; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ELECTRONS; HYDROCARBONS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 16244384223     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/nmat1354     Document Type: Article

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