Spin Rabi flopping in the photocurrent of a polymer light-emitting diode

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 723-728

  McCamey, D R ^a   Seipel, H A ^a   Paik, S Y ^a   Walter, M J ^a   Borys, N J ^a   Lupton, J M ^a   Boehme, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MIXING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

COHERENT MANIPULATION; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC RESPONSE; POLYMER LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; SPIN DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; SPIN-DEPENDENT RECOMBINATION;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 50049105400     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2252     Document Type: Article

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