L. Smilowitz

TL;DR: Because the photoluminescence in the conducting polymer is quenched by interaction with C60, the data imply that charge transfer from the excited state occurs on a picosecond time scale.

TL;DR: A comparative study of the steady-state photoinduced absorption and photoinduced electron-spin-resonance spectra of conducting polymers mixed with the fullerene C 60 shows that in the case of a conjugated polymer with a degenerate ground state as donor, the structural relaxation associated with the formation of charged solitons is faster and no indications of photoinduced charge transfer are observed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the metastable, reversible, photoinduced electron transfer between semiconducting polymers and buckminsterfullerene is reviewed. And the importance of electron-phonon coupling in these low-dimensional semiconductor polymers, resulting in structural relaxation upon photoexcitation, is proposed to contribute to the stabilization of the charge-separated state.

TL;DR: Etude de la structure vibrationnelle et electronique des excitations de charge elementaire de ces polymers observe une serie de modes vibrationnels actifs dans l'infra-rouge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used steady state photoinduced absorption to study the long-lived photoexcitations in the conjugated polymer poly(2-methoxy, 5-(2′-ethylhexyloxy)- p -phenylene vinylene) (MEH-PPV) as a dilute component in ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (PE) oriented by gel-processing.