ORGANIC MOLECULAR SOLIDS.

Abstract

Experimental evidence was found for transport of electronic excitation energy in pyrene crystals by trivial transfer, excimer exciton migration, and monomer migration. The relative importance of these various transfer mechanisms depends upon the geometry of the sample, the nature of the acceptors, the acceptor concentration, and the temperature. Trivial transfer was important in the perylene doped samples, but not in the samples containing azulene as the acceptor. The photogeneration of free electrons in the short wavelength region is shown to involve a direct optical transition to a conducting state of the pyrene crystal with a threshold of approx. 4.1 ev. Hole generation in the short wavelength region involves comparable contributions from an intrinsic, as well as an extrinsic, impurity dependent process. Long wavelength generation of holes involves migration of mobile monomer singlet excitons to the surface of the crystal where ionization occurs.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 20, 1967
Accession Number
AD0659401

Entities

People

  • David R. Kearns

Organizations

  • University of California, Riverside

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charged Particles
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Excitation
  • Excitons
  • Fermions
  • Free Electrons
  • Geometry
  • Impurities
  • Ionization
  • Leptons
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Migration
  • Quasiparticles
  • Short Wavelengths

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics