Photoexcitations in pernigraniline: Ring-torsional polarons and bond-order solitons

Autor: J. M. Ginder, Alan G. MacDiarmid, K.R. Cromack, J. M. Leng, Sanjeev K. Manohar, A. J. Epstein, Y. Sun, R. P. McCall, H. J. Ye
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Physical review letters. 68(8)
ISSN: 1079-7114
Popis: We report the first near-steady-state and long time photoinduced- absorption spectroscopies of pernigraniline base, a novel Peierls ground state polymer with multiple order parameters. Two kinds of defects have been observed and distinguished by differing time domains and ir active vibrations. The short- lived defect has a lifetime of msec scale and a defect mass of -5 m; in contrast, the lifetime of the long lived defect (mass -300 m) is greater than several hours at low temperatures. We propose that the short-lived excitation is a soliton defect in the bond length (order parameter or alternation), while the long-lived excitation is a polaron defect in the ring torsion angle order parameter.
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