Electric Field Induced Light Emission and Conductance-Loss Transients in Liquid Anthracene
Keyword(s):
Liquid anthracene has an unusually high electrical conductivity for a hydrocarbon, being 2 × 10−1 mho cm−1 at 507 K. At electric field strengths above 3 kV/cm the conductance suffers transient decreases that last <3 μs and are irregularly spaced in time. The average frequency of occurrence and magnitude of the transients increase rapidly with increasing field above the threshold. The conductance loss transients are accompanied by emission of light. These phenomena may be related to that of semiconductor laser emission.
2000 ◽
Vol 30
(3)
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pp. 535-537
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2019 ◽