Abstract
The thermally stimulated luminescence technique was used for investigating the singlet-triplet splitting of geminate polaron pairs in a ladder-type conjugated polymer. The energy gap that separated the single and triplet states of geminate pairs depended on the polymer morphology and was measured to be in the range of 3-6 meV. THe singlet-triplet branching was strongly impacted by the sample morphology. The low splitting values obtained from quantum-chemical calculations were found to be important for the spin-dependent exciton formation in conjugated polymers.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 066803 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 93 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 6 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)