Photoinduced electron transfer in conjugated polymer/fullerene heterostructures
- 1 November 1997
- proceedings article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
- p. 140-147
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.293355
Abstract
We investigate the photophysics in composite systems consisting of fullerene molecules and a conjugated polymer. Photoluminescence (PL) quenching experiments are used to study the photoinduced electron transfer that occurs after photoexcitation of the conjugated polymer In blend systems with various fullerene concentrations we find a strong concentration dependant PL-quenching. By doping a ladder type poly(p-phenylene) (LPPP) with 5 weight percent of a C60-fullerene the polymer PL is quenched by more than one order of magnitude. Time-resolved measurements show that the photoinduced electron transfer can not be described by a single rate. The nonexponential PL-decay is due to complex processes in more detail we have prepared will define heterostructures comprising a self-assembled fullerene monolayer and a thin spin-coated polymer layer. From PL- quenching experiments on these samples we infer a value of 14 nm for the diffusion length of neutral excitations in LPPP.Keywords
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