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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 82, Issue 23, Pages 4086-4088Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1579557
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We investigate locations of molecular oxygen and moisture (O-2/H2O) serving as traps in poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] (MEH-PPV) by measurements of field-induced thermally stimulated current, photoexcitation thermally stimulated current (PE-TSC), and dynamic mechanical analysis. Two broad peaks of PE-TSC are found at 212 and 325 K in the samples with O-2/H2O-rich MEH-PPV, which are in reasonable agreement with those of the side chain and main chain relaxation, respectively. These traps can be attributed to the presence of O-2/H2O (most likely molecular oxygen) in the side chain region and the amorphous main chain region, and the detrapping process is induced by chain motions under elevated temperatures. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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