Recombination kinetics of photoexcitations in films of MEH-PPV and MEH-PPV/C60 mixtures

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 154, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 237-240

  Gershman, E ^a   Drori, T ^a   Herzog, C ^a   Eichen, Y ^a   Ehrenfreund, E ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dispersive bimolecular recombination; Photoexcited polarons; Triplet excitons

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; LIGHT MODULATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

DISPERSIVE BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; MEH-PPV; PHOTOEXCITED POLARONS; TRIPLET EXCITONS;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 24644471042     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2005.07.060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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