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EPL
Volume 112, Number 3, November 2015
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| Article Number | 37004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/112/37004 | |
| Published online | 18 November 2015 | |
Low-energy exciton pocket at finite momentum in tetracene molecular solids
1 Center for Free-Electron Laser Science / DESY - Notkestraße 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
2 IFW Dresden - P.O. Box 270116, D-01171 Dresden, Germany
Received: 21 September 2015
Accepted: 27 October 2015
The excited state dynamics in organic semiconductors plays an important role for many processes associated with light absorption and emission. We have studied the momentum dependence of the lowest singlet excitons in tetracene molecular solids, an archetype system for other organic semiconductors. Our results reveal an anisotropic band structure of these excitons with an energy minimum at finite momentum, i.e., a low-energy exciton pocket. The existence of such low-energy states might have important consequences for the photophysical behavior, also in view of applications in, e.g., organic solar cells. Our studies stress the importance of momentum-dependent considerations in organic systems.
PACS: 79.20.Uv – Electron energy loss spectroscopy / 78.66.-w – Optical properties of specific thin films / 71.35.Cc – Intrinsic properties of excitons; optical absorption spectra
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