Near-IR femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of ultrafast polaron and triplet exciton formation in polythiophene films with different regioregularities

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 16869-16880

  Guo, Jiamo ^a   Ohkita, Hideo ^a   Benten, Hiroaki ^a   Ito, Shinzaburo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMBIC BINDING; EXCITATION INTENSITY; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; EXCITON STATE; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FILM MORPHOLOGY; FORMATION DYNAMICS; GEMINATE RECOMBINATION; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING; NANO-SECOND TIME DOMAIN; NEAR-IR; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; POLARON PAIRS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYTHIOPHENE FILMS; REGIO-REGULAR; REGIORANDOM; RR-P3HT; SINGLET EXCITONS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; TRIPLET EXCITONS; ULTRA-FAST; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BINDING ENERGY; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLARONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EXCITONS;

POLY(3 HEXYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DESTRUCTION; ENERGY; FILM; FISSION NEUTRON; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOANALYSIS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROTON TRANSPORT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; THERMAL TIME;

EID: 70450164022     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja906621a     Document Type: Article

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