Kinetics of the fluorescence of poly(N-vinylcarbazole) and poly(N-vinylcarbazole) with 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone in the solid state

The fluorescence decay time measurements by the stroboscopic method have been made on films of amorphous poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVCA) and PVCA doped with 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone (TNF). The obtained lifetimes of two excimer species have at 77 K and at 300 K values of about 43 ns and 9 ns, which are similar to other measurements. The kinetics of excimer fluorescence and energy transfer in PVCA films are described by a simple model of the Stern-Volmer type. It assumes the fast migration of localized singlet excitons and their trapping in two species of excimer traps.We propose a modified kinetic model for films of PVCA with TNF. In this model we assume besides the exciton migration and trapping on excimer and impurity traps also the direct energy transfer from two excimer species to charge transfer complexes of PVCA with TNF by the Förster dipole-dipole mechanism. The estimated critical distance of this transfer are about 10 Å.