Coulomb screening and exciton binding energies in conjugated polymers

1997 ◽  
Vol 106 (10) ◽  
pp. 4216-4227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Moore ◽  
Benjamin Gherman ◽  
David Yaron
1999 ◽  
Vol 579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rohlfing

ABSTRACTWe investigate the formation of excitons in low-dimensional semiconducting systems. To this end a recently developed ab initio approach is employed to determine the excitation energies and optical transition matrix elements of bound and unbound excitonic states. From these results the optical spectrum can be evaluated. We discuss two classes of low- dimensional prototype materials: conjugated polymers and a semiconductor surface. Due to the reduced dimensionality, the excitonic binding energies are much larger than in con- ventional semiconductors.


Author(s):  
J. Fink

Conducting polymers comprises a new class of materials achieving electrical conductivities which rival those of the best metals. The parent compounds (conjugated polymers) are quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors. These polymers can be doped by electron acceptors or electron donors. The prototype of these materials is polyacetylene (PA). There are various other conjugated polymers such as polyparaphenylene, polyphenylenevinylene, polypoyrrole or polythiophene. The doped systems, i.e. the conducting polymers, have intersting potential technological applications such as replacement of conventional metals in electronic shielding and antistatic equipment, rechargable batteries, and flexible light emitting diodes.Although these systems have been investigated almost 20 years, the electronic structure of the doped metallic systems is not clear and even the reason for the gap in undoped semiconducting systems is under discussion.


1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 765-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Batalla ◽  
J.O. Strom-Olsen ◽  
Z. Altounian ◽  
D. Boothroyd ◽  
R. Harris

2002 ◽  
Vol 719 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Thonke ◽  
N. Kerwien ◽  
A. Wysmolek ◽  
M. Potemski ◽  
A. Waag ◽  
...  

AbstractWe investigate by photoluminescence (PL) nominally undoped, commercially available Zinc Oxide substrates (from Eagle Picher) grown by seeded chemical vapor transport technique in order to identify residual donors and acceptors. In low temperature PL spectra the dominant emission comes from the decay of bound exciton lines at around 3.36 eV. Zeeman measurements allow the identification of the two strongest lines and some weaker lines in-between as donorrelated. From the associated two-electron satellite lines binding energies of the major donors of 48 meV and 55 meV, respectively, can be deduced.


2003 ◽  
Vol 771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adosh Mehta ◽  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Jie Zheng ◽  
Robert M. Dickson ◽  
Bobby Sumpter ◽  
...  

AbstractDipole emission pattern imaging experiments on single chains of common conjugated polymers (solubilized poly phenylene vinylenes) isolated by ink-jet printing techniques have revealed surprising uniformity in transition moment orientation perpendicular to the support substrate. In addition to uniform orientation, these species show a number of striking differences in photochemical stability, polarization anisotropy,[1] and spectral signatures[2] with respect to similar (well-studied) molecules dispersed in dilute thin-films. Combined with molecular mechanics simulation, these results point to a structural picture of a folded macromolecule as a highly ordered cylindrical nanostructure whose long-axis (approximately collinear with the conjugation axis) is oriented, by an electrostatic interaction, perpendicular to the coverglass substrate. These results suggest a number of important applications in nanoscale photonics and molecular-scale optoelectronics.


2000 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhonghua Peng ◽  
Yongchun Pan ◽  
Bubin Xu ◽  
Jianheng Zhang

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1178-1190
Author(s):  
A. JOHN PETER ◽  
Ada Vinolin

Simultaneous effects of magnetic field, pressure and temperature on the exciton binding energies are found in a 9.0 1.0 6.0 4.0 GaAs P / GaAs P quantum dot. Numerical calculations are carried out taking into consideration of spatial confinement effect. The cylindrical system is taken in the present problem with the strain effects. The electronic properties and the optical properties are found with the combined effects of magnetic field strength, hydrostatic pressure and temperature values. The exciton binding energies and the nonlinear optical properties are carried out taking into consideration of geometrical confinement and the external perturbations.Compact density approach is employed to obtain the nonlinear optical properties. The optical rectification coefficient is obtained with the photon energy in the presence of pressure, temperature and external magnetic field strength. Pressure and temperature dependence on nonlinear optical susceptibilities of generation of second and third order harmonics as a function of incident photon energy are brought out in the influence of magnetic field strength. The result shows that the electronic and nonlinear optical properties are significantly modified by the applications of external perturbations in a 9.0 1.0 6.0 4.0 GaAs P / GaAs P quantum dot.


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