Fullerenes in the highly excited state

H. J. Byrne, W. K. Maser, M. Kaiser, L. Akselrod, J. Anders, W. W. Rühle, X. Q. Zhou, A. Mittelbach, S. Roth

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Abstract

Under high intensity illumination, the optical and electronic properties of fullerenes are seen to undergo dramatic, nonlinear changes. The photoluminescence emission is seen to increase with approximately the third power of the input intensity above an apparent threshold intensity. Associated with this nonlinear increase is the emergence of a long lifetime emission component and a redshifting of the emission spectrum. Investigations of the photo-transport properties associate the observed behaviour with a phase transition in the highly excited state. Above an intensity which coincides with the onset of the nonlinear emission, the photoconductive response increases with approximately the cube of the input power. In the highly excited state, the photoconductive response becomes relatively temperature independent compared to the thermally activated behaviour observed at low intensities. The characteristics of the temperature dependence are associated with a high electron mobility phase in the highly excited state and therefore an optically driven insulator to metal transition is proposed as a description of the observed phenomena.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)81-86
Number of pages6
JournalApplied Physics A Solids and Surfaces
Volume57
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 1993
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • 33.90.+h
  • 36.20.Kd
  • 71.30.+h

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