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Intrinsic photoconduction and photoemission in polyethylene
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Intrinsic photoemission and photoconduction of polyethylene in the photon energy range 7<E<14 eV have been experimentally investigated. Both phenomena are parabolic in E with the same threshold energy E G =8.8 eV. The main features of a model that accounts for the observations are: (a) E G is the intrinsic electron-hole band gap. (b) Strong absorption for 7.6<E<8.8 eV is due to exciton creation. (c) The bottom of the conduction band lies an energy A above the vacuum level, where 0<A<1.2 eV. (d) The photocurrents are due to rapid motion of carriers through a short distance approximately=10 nm along individual polyethylene chains. (e) The carriers subsequently travel through the polyethylene with a very low mobility.
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- Authors
- Less, K. J., & Wilson, E. G.
- Venue
- Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 1973-10-30
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 3110-3120
- ISSN
- 0022-3719 (ISSN-L)
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- W2125316120
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- FWCI
- 6.14
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- journal article
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- en
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