Dynamical study of impurity effects on bipolaron-bipolaron and bipolaron-polaron scattering in conjugated polymers

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 11801-11811

  Ribeiro, Luiz Antonio ^a   Da Cunha, Wiliam Ferreira ^a   De Oliveira Neto, Pedro Henrique ^a   Gargano, Ricardo ^a   Magela E Silva, Geraldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ELECTRIC FIELD; EXTENDED HUBBARD MODEL; IMPURITY EFFECT; OPTOELECTRONICS DEVICES; POLYMER LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; QUASIPARTICLES; SU SCHRIEFFER HEEGER MODEL; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXCITONS; IMPURITIES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84885125601     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp402963k     Document Type: Article

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