Exciton annihilation in a polyfluorene: Low threshold for singlet-singlet annihilation and the absence of singlet-triplet annihilation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  King, S M ^a   Dai, D ^a   Rothe, C ^a   Monkman, A P ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547828932     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.085204     Document Type: Article

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