Phonon-driven ultrafast exciton dissociation at donor-acceptor polymer heterojunctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Tamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Ramon, John G S ^b   Bittner, Eric R ^b   Burghardt, Irene ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; ELECTRONIC STATES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHONONS;

PHONON MODES; POLYMER HETEROJUNCTIONS; QUANTUM-DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST EXCITON DECAY;

EXCITONS;

EID: 40849142297     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.107402     Document Type: Article

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