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Synthetic Metals, 28 (1989) DI41 D146 13141 I N F R A R E D A B S O R P T I O N I N K - D O P E D ( C H ) x D.B. TANNER, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. U.S.A. G. L. DOLL, A.M. RAO, and P.C. EKLUND, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lezington, KY 40506, U.S.A. G.A. ARBUCKLE and A.G. MacDIARMID, Department o/Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Abstract The infrared absorption of polyacetylene doped with high concentrations of potassium has been studied. The samples, doped by a vapor-phase technique to y~0.08 and y~0.18, showed doping-induced infrared absorption at ~900, 1270, and 1390 cm -1 which was comparable in strength to that seen in [CH(CIO4)y]x with y~0.06. These experiments were motivated by calcu- lations of the infrared absorption which showed that whereas there are only small differences in the infrared spectra for isolated solitons and isolated polarons there is a dramatic difference between the high-concentration polaron lattice and soliton lattice. The shapes of the absorption spectra are rather similar but the absorption for the polaron latticeis 13 orders of magnitude weaker than that of soliton lattice.The observation of these features at high doping levelsappears to be incon- sistentwith the polaronic metal and strongly disordered Peierls insulator models for highly doped polyacetylene. I. Introduction This paper describes a study of the infrared reflectanceof (CH)x doped with potassium into the metallic~ range. Our experiments were motivated by calculations of the infrared absorption by Hicks and Gammel, 1 Choi and Mele, 2 and Hicks, Gammel, Choi andMele, 3 which show that whereas there are o