Direct evidence of lattice-relaxed charge transfer exciton strings

Autor: Tadeusz Luty, Hervé Cailleau, Norbert Karl, Eric Collet, Sylvain Ravy, M. Buron-Le Cointe, Piotr Czarnecki, M. H. Lemée-Cailleau, J. F. Berar
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Europhysics Letters (EPL). 57:67-73
ISSN: 1286-4854
0295-5075
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2002-00542-5
Popis: We report first direct evidence, by X-ray diffuse scattering, of lattice-relaxed charge transfer exciton strings, which are one-dimensional self-trapped multiadjacent excitons. These non-linear excitations are key objects in quasi–one-dimensional organic compounds that undergo the neutral-ionic transition and are responsible for their physical properties. The one-dimensional fluctuations are very well described within the framework of the transfer integral method and physical parameters are deduced from both X-ray and dielectric measurements.
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