Spin excitations, conjugated polymers

For spin-1/2 excitations such as electrons and holes in normal semiconductors or polarons in conjugated polymers, a single resonance is found centered at the Field... 

Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) has yielded valuable information about dynamics of long-lived pholoexcitations of conjugated polymers. The technique relies upon the paramagnetic interaction of excitations with an applied magnetic field. For a particle with non-zero spin, placed in a magnetic field, the Hamiltonian is ... 

Several experiments have been carried out to confirm the physical properties of solitons in mns-polyacetylene [27]. Lately, this excitation has also been studied in another degenerate ground state conjugate polymer, poly(l,6-heptadiene) [28]. The onedimensional spin diffusion and associated spin dynamics are verified from electron magnetic resonance spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) measurements [13]. The density of neutral solitons has been estimated by Motsovoy and co-workers [29]. For more details on the physical properties of solitons, the reader is referred to a review article by Heeger and co-workers [13]. However, more theoretical and experimental work is... 

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