Showing papers by "S. Roth published in 1988"

Photoconductivity in trans -polyacetylene: Transport and recombination of photogenerated charged excitations

Abstract: Photoconductivity in unoriented Shirakawa-type polyacetylene as well as in highly oriented Durham-Graz-type polyacetylene has been measured. Both cw and transient experiments on different time scales have been carried out. The existence and the behavior of a fast and a slow component of the photoconductivity have been investigated in detail and the relationship between the two components has been elucidated. For the fast component we have observed a relaxation time of ${\ensuremath{\tau}}_{1/2}$\ensuremath{\approxeq}100 ps, a migration distance of the carriers up to 400 A\r{}, and a mobility of \ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\approxeq}2 ${\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$/V s. The mobility of the slow component is 2 orders of magnitude lower. In the oriented samples two kinds of anisotropy of the photocurrent have been found, one with respect to the direction of the applied electric field with a value of ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\sigma}}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\parallel}}}$/${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\sigma}}}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\perp}}}$=50, and the other with respect to the polarization of the incident light. From a comparison of these data with those of photoinduced absorption measurements, we attribute the fast component mainly to polarons and the slow component to a hopping transport of charged solitonlike defects.

Transient photoconductivity in highly oriented poly(p-phenylenevinylene)

Abstract: Time-resolved photoconductivity measurements are reported for pulsed excitation of highly oriented poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) films. These measurements reveal a large, short-lived photoconductive response separate from the long-lived component that has been investigated by several other groups. The authors report the dependence of this short-lived photocurrent upon the sample temperature, upon the polarisation, energy and intensity of the excitation light and upon the magnitude and orientation of the applied DC bias field.