Time-resolved fluorescence studies and Monte Carlo simulations of relaxation dynamics of photoexcitations in a polyfluorene film

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)223-228
Number of pages6
JournalChemical Physics Letters
Volume339
Issue number3-4
Publication statusPublished - 9 May 2001

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Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy is used to investigate relaxation of electronic excitations in films of a π-conjugated polyfluorene polymer in the ps time domain. Results are consistent with theoretical predictions based on a model for relaxation of the excitations by incoherent hopping between localized states through Förster type energy transfer with a Förster radius R0~20 Å. Excitons created by a photon with an energy <2.92 eV are found to remain immobile during their lifetime. In addition the measurements indicate that for excitation energies 2.94 eV additional relaxation processes, ascribed to ultrafast intrachain vibrational relaxation, are operative.

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Time-resolved fluorescence studies and Monte Carlo simulations of relaxation dynamics of photoexcitations in a polyfluorene film. / Meskers, Stefan C.J.; Hübner, Jens; Oestreich, Michael et al.
In: Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 339, No. 3-4, 09.05.2001, p. 223-228.

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