Abstract

Model of photoionization of a weakly disordered conjugated polymer is proposed for high photon energies of exciting light. The vibrational energy of photogenerated excitons is assumed to go into heating of a conjugated segment. This results in an increase of temperature of mobile charges produced by dissociation of excitons. The vibrational heating of the conjugated segment is assumed to be conserved for so long that charge carriers can cross the potential barrier formed by the Coulomb and external electric fields during their diffusion motion along the excited segment with effective temperature Teff. It is shown that the model agrees with experimental data on photocarrier quantum yield in films of a methyl-substituted ladder-type poly-para-phenylene (MeLPPP) obtained by Bath et al. [Chem. Phys. Lett. 288 (1998) 147–154]. The effective temperature Teff>1200K is estimated in MeLPPP for wavelength 250nm.

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