Time-Resolved Charge Carrier Generation from Higher Lying Excited States in Conjugated Polymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Gadermaier, C ^a,b   Cerullo, G ^a   Sansone, G ^a   Leising, G ^c   Scherf, U ^d   Lanzani, G ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; EXCITONS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STIMULATED EMISSION;

EXCITATION ENERGY MIGRATION; EXCITATION PULSES; POLYPARAPHENYL; TRANSIENT DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRONIC RELAXATION;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 45849155723     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.117402     Document Type: Article

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