E. Mulazzi et al., SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF POLYACETYLENE SEGMENTS IN COPOLYMERS, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 57(24), 1998, pp. 15328-15336
In this paper we present an extensive study of the optical properties
of polyacetylene [(CH)(x) and (CD)(x)] segments in copolymers by means
of several spectroscopic techniques. They include UV-visible absorpti
on, resonant Raman scattering, and photoinduced infrared absorption. A
large variety of samples in either diblock or triblock copolymers, in
general in the solid state, but also, in one particular case, in solu
tion, are investigated. We show that the optical properties of these c
opolymers are strongly dependent on the distribution of conjugation le
ngths of segments in the different samples. A consistent model based o
n the vibrational and electronic properties of the polyacetylene conju
gated segments and on a bimodal distribution is used to reproduce the
band shapes observed in the UV-visible absorption, resonance Raman sca
ttering, and photoinduced infrared-absorption spectra. The calculated
structured shapes of the bands, and in particular the features in the
low-frequency region of the photoinduced infrared absorption band in t
he different samples, are in very good agreement with the experimental
data.