Vibronic spectra of charge transfer excitons and of mixed charge transfer and Frenkel excitons

Abstract

The linear absorption spectra in the excitonic and vibronic regions in the case of mixing of Frenkel excitons (FEs) and charge-transfer excitons (CTEs) have been theoretically studied for the exciton parameters of the crystals of MePTCDI and PTCDA. Two coupling parameters for the exciton–phonon coupling are introduced: the FE–phonon coupling and the CTE–phonon coupling. The main features of the vibronics in the absorption spectra are the following: (a) the existence of a doublet structure in the vibronic spectra of CTEs; (b) the vibronic levels of the FE at intermediate values of both coupling parameters are located in the continuum of the many-particle exciton–phonon states which makes its absorption line wide and flat; (c) in the case of strong coupling (coupling constants larger than 1) a doublet of bound states appears above this continuum; (d) in the case of vanishing CTE–phonon coupling the vibronics of the charge transfer excitons practically disappear in the absorption spectra.