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Electroabsorption spectroscopy of 6-hydroxyquinoline doped in polymer films: Stark shifts and orientational effects
Mohan Singh Mehata1, Toshifumi Iimori, Tomokazu Yoshizawa
1Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Abstract:
Stark absorption spectroscopy was applied to 6-hydroxyquinoline (6-HQ) doped in polymer films of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) at temperatures of 50-300 K. The electroabsorption (E-A) spectrum of 6-HQ markedly depends on temperature in a PMMA film. The polarization dependence as well as the temperature dependence of the E-A spectra reveals that 6-HQ is oriented along the direction of the applied electric field at room temperature in a PMMA film. As the temperature becomes lower, the field-induced orientation of 6-HQ is restricted, and only the Stark shift induced by a change in electric dipole moment and in molecular polarizability is observed. On the other hand, E-A spectra of 6-HQ doped in a PVA film are essentially independent of temperature, suggesting that 6-HQ is not oriented along the electric field even at room temperature in PVA. These results show that the molecular motion of 6-HQ in a polymer film is very sensitive to the microenvironment of the surrounding matrix.
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