We investigate the optical properties and intermolecular coupling of p
ara-hexaphenyl polycrystalline films by site-selective spectroscopy, t
ime-resolved photoluminescence and photoinduced absorption measurement
s. Our results point to (i) a short-range orientational and energetic
disorder and (ii) the molecular character of the light emission, with
no evidence of intermolecular excited states. (C) 1998 Elsevier Scienc
e B.V.