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Transient Photoconductivity in Polyacetylene and Polydiacetylene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

D. Moses ,
S. Phillips ,
M. Sinclair  and
A. J. Heeger
D. Moses
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
S. Phillips
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
M. Sinclair
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
A. J. Heeger
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Abstract

Conducting polymers have been found to be rather good photoconductors in the sub-nansecond time regime. The TP measurement is an effective probe for determining carrier photogeneration quantum yield as well as for investigating transport mechanisms. Here, we present a short survey of our results for a few interesting polymeric systems. We start with the trans-(CH)x grown by the Shirakawa method. We then compared the TP results to those obtained from PDA-TS which currently is the only conjugated polymer in single crystal form. From this comparison, we are able to gauge the improvements in the material quality as was demonstrated by recent TP in trans-(CH)x grown by the Naarmann method

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 109: Symposium K – Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polymers , 1987 , 195
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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