Trapping mechanisms and dynamics in bis-triarylamine-based photorefractive polymer composites

Canek Fuentes-Hernandez; Jayan Thomas; Gerald R. Meredith; Nasser N. Peyghambarian; Seth R. Marder; Bernard Kippelen

doi:10.1117/12.562924

26 October 2004 Trapping mechanisms and dynamics in bis-triarylamine-based photorefractive polymer composites

Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Jayan Thomas, Gerald R. Meredith, Nasser N. Peyghambarian, Seth R. Marder, Bernard Kippelen

Proceedings Volume 5521, Organic Holographic Materials and Applications II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.562924
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We report on the trapping mechanisms in bis-triarylamine (PATPD) based polymer composites. Although exceptional stability under continuous operation has been reported in PATPD-based composites, a small degradation of the response time in photorefractive devices under continuous operation has been found when improved styrene-based chromophores, with high figure-of-merit, are used. The accumulation of relatively large densities (~10¹⁷ cm^-3) of filled traps is observed even though to first approximation the transport manifold has the lowest ionization potential of all the moieties in the composite, so no apparent deep trapping sites are to be present. The results of spectroscopic studies where the formation of chromophore aggregates is explored and correlated with the formation of hole-trapping sites that dominate the temporal evolution of the photogenerated current density and C₆₀ anion accumulation after several minutes of continuous operation will be presented and compared with numerical simulations considering a two-trapping site model in materials containing the chromophore DBDC.

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Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Jayan Thomas, Gerald R. Meredith, Nasser N. Peyghambarian, Seth R. Marder, and Bernard Kippelen "Trapping mechanisms and dynamics in bis-triarylamine-based photorefractive polymer composites", Proc. SPIE 5521, Organic Holographic Materials and Applications II, (26 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.562924

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