Electrodeless time-resolved microwave conductivity study of charge-carrier photogeneration in regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films
- 13 July 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 70 (4), 045203
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.70.045203
Abstract
The electrodeless flash-photolysis time-resolved microwave conductivity technique () has been used to study the photogeneration of charge carriers in spin-coated films of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) , over the photon energy range from 1.9 to for incident light intensities from to per pulse. The initial, single-photon quantum yield of photoionization, , has been estimated from the low-intensity limit to the photoconductivity based on a charge carrier mobility of (determined in separate pulse-radiolysis experiments on bulk ). The value of is constant at within the range , which encompasses the first electronic absorption band of . Above , increases, up to a value of at . The activation energy of the photoconductivity was found to be approximately at all photon energies. The high-intensity, sublinear dependence of the photoconductivity can be described by the occurrence of either exciton-exciton annihilation or diffusional charge recombination with rate coefficients of and .
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