Charge carrier formation in polythiophene/fullerene blend films studied by transient absorption spectroscopy

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3030-3042

  Ohkita, Hideo ^a,c   Cook, Steffan ^a   Astuti, Yeni ^a   Duffy, Warren ^b   Tierney, Steve ^b   Zhang, Weimin ^b   Heeney, Martin ^b,d   McCulloch, Iain ^a,b   Nelson, Jenny ^a   Bradley, Donal D C ^a   Durrant, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Merck Chemicals   (United Kingdom)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMORPHOUS FILMS; CHARGE CARRIERS; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; POLYMERS;

NONPLANAR GEOMETRY; POLARON PAIRS; PRISTINE FILMS;

FULLERENES;

FULLERENE; POLYMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FILM; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 41449090763     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja076568q     Document Type: Article

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