Dy. Paraschuk et al., PHOTOINDUCED STEADY-STATE SPECTROSCOPY OF A HIGHLY STABLE SOLUBLE POLYACETYLENE BLEND - NEUTRAL SOLITON STATES AND THERMAL EFFECTS, Synthetic metals, 71(1-3), 1995, pp. 1715-1716
We have investigated steady-state photoabsorption spectra of a soluble
polyacetylene prepared by a recently devised technique. Measurements
were carried out both on solutions and trans-isomerized films. We have
found that photoexcitation of the polyacetylene transforms only into
neutral solitons in the temperature range 85-300 K. Simultaneously, ph
otoabsorption spectra of films show thermal bands due to temperature m
odulation of the absorption edge.