Ultrafast femtosecond relaxation processes in luminescent and nonluminescent conducting polymers

Jiandong D. Huang; Sergey V. Frolov; Z. Valy Vardeny; W. Chen; Thomas J. Barton; R. Sugimoto; Masanori Ozaki; Katsumi Yoshino

doi:10.1117/12.284153

1 December 1997 Ultrafast femtosecond relaxation processes in luminescent and nonluminescent conducting polymers

Jiandong D. Huang, Sergey V. Frolov, Z. Valy Vardeny, W. Chen, Thomas J. Barton, R. Sugimoto, Masanori Ozaki, Katsumi Yoshino

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Proceedings Volume 3145, Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.284153
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We have employed the time-resolved photomodulation (PM) technique to study the photoexcitation dynamics of a luminescent (Si-PT) and nonluminescent (s-(CH)_x) conducting polymers in the low signal limit. In each polymer, we identify two exponential decay processes in the PM decay, with characteristic time constants T₁ and T₂, where T₁ is of order 1 ps and T₂ depends on the specific polymer; T₂ in Si-PT is about 50 ps, whereas T₂ in s-(CH)_x is about 5 ps. The difference in T₂ is tentatively attributed to radiative and non-radiative recombination kinetics, respectively. We also found that the PM decay does not show any obvious temperature and intensity dependences, whereas the polarization memory decay is longer at low temperatures.

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Jiandong D. Huang, Sergey V. Frolov, Z. Valy Vardeny, W. Chen, Thomas J. Barton, R. Sugimoto, Masanori Ozaki, and Katsumi Yoshino "Ultrafast femtosecond relaxation processes in luminescent and nonluminescent conducting polymers", Proc. SPIE 3145, Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers, (1 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.284153

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