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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 85, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205207
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1104495]
- University of Utah [DMR 1121252]
- Israel Science Foundation [ISF 472/11]
- US-Israel Binational Science Foundation [2010135]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1121252, 1104495] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The magnetic field effect in organic light-emitting diodes, such as magnetoconductance and magnetoelec-troluminescence, has been intensively explored in the last few years. Here, we demonstrate the magnetic field effect of two excited-state spectroscopies in films of a prototype pi-conjugated polymer, i.e., a soluble derivative of poly(phenylene vinylene), [2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-poly(p-phenylene vinylene)] (MEH-PPV); these are magnetophoto-induced absorption (MPA) and magnetophotoluminescence (MPL). We study these novel magnetic field effects in pristine MEH-PPV films, MEH-PPV films subjected to prolonged illumination, and blend of MEH-PPV with a fullerene derivative. Being spectroscopic, MPA and MPL are determined by the photoexcitation spin density and thus may unravel the occurrence of myriad spin-mixing processes in organic semiconductors that include hyperfine interaction in polaron pairs, spin-sublevel mixing in triplet excitons, triplet-triplet annihilation, and triplet-singlet collision. The recently observed ultrasmall magnetic field effect at B < similar to 0.5 mT in organic diodes is also observed in the MPA response of MEH-PPV films that support polaron photoexcitations, thereby identifying the underlying mechanism as being due to spin mixing of polaron pairs by the hyperfine interaction.
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