Abstract
The ultrafast photophysics of conjugated polymers such as poly(para-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) and its derivatives were studied to understand the nature and mechanisms of formation of the primary photoexcitations in these materials. Detailed knowledge of the photoexcitations is essential for developing optimized optoelectronic devices from these materials. Recent progress on several issues are reported: the nature of the intrinsic photoexcitations and nonlinear decay mechanisms in the PPV family; the use of photoinduced charge transfer in blends and bilayers with C60 to achieve novel nonlinear optical effects; and the spatial extent of the photoinduced charge transfer in these systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS |
| Editors | Anon |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 443-444 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 10th IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, LEOS. Part 2 (of 2) - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: Nov 10 1997 → Nov 13 1997 |
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| Other | Proceedings of the 1997 10th IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, LEOS. Part 2 (of 2) |
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| City | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Period | 11/10/97 → 11/13/97 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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McBranch, D. W., Klimov, V. I., Vacar, D., & Heeger, A. J. (1997). Femtosecond studies of photoexcited carriers and charge transfer nonlinearities in conducting polymers and oligomers. In Anon (Ed.), Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS (Vol. 2, pp. 443-444). IEEE.