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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 1, 期 19, 页码 2788-2792出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz101026g
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- EPSRC
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F056648/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F056648/2] Funding Source: UKRI
An understanding of aggregation effects in semiconducting polymers is essential for their use in optoelectronic devices; however, the dynamic evolution of such interchain states is not well understood. Here, we have investigated a blend of semiconducting poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) with an electronically inert ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) matrix that is shown to allow precise control over the extent to which the P3HT chains aggregate. We determined the singlet excition population within isolated and aggregated P3HT regions using femtosecond time-resolved photoluminescence measurements and found a strong ultrafast decay pathway in the aggregated case only. Comparison of the emission from the two lowerst vibronic bands demonstrates a changeover from an initial vibrationally hot photoexcited state to a geometrically relaxed aggregate state within similar to 13 ps, corresponding to time scales for torsional relaxation in these materials. We conclude that formation of an aggregate excited state in conjugated polymers is mediated by vibrational relaxation from a low-symmetry to a high-symmetry ordered state for the ensemble.
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