Chain-Assisted Charge Transport in Semicrystalline Conjugated Polymers

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Conchuir, B. O. ; Tarantini, C. ; McNeill, Christopher R. ; Hüttner, Sven ; Zaccone, A.:
Chain-Assisted Charge Transport in Semicrystalline Conjugated Polymers.
In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Vol. 120 (2016) Issue 27 . - pp. 14539-14548.
ISSN 1932-7455
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b04714

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Charge-carrier transport in a paradigmatic semicrystalline polymer semiconductor (P3HT) is important for both fundamental understanding and applications. In samples with enhanced structural disorder due to ad-hoc point defects, the mobility displays rich behavior as a function of electric field (F) and temperature (T). At low T, the mobility increases with the applied field, but upon further increasing T, the field-dependence becomes shallower. Eventually, at the highest T considered, the slope changes sign and the mobility then decreases with the field. This phenomenon can be interpreted with our model as a result of the competition between intrachain conductive-like transport (which slows on increasing F) and interchain activated transport (which is faster at higher F). The former is controlling at high T where interchain hops are strictly limited to nearest-neighbor monomers on adjacent chains. At low T, instead, interchain hops to distant sites are allowed and control the positive correlation of the mobility with the field.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Chemistry > Former Professors > Junior Professor Solar Energy - Juniorprof. Dr. Sven Hüttner Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > Polymer and Colloid Science Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Chemistry Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Chemistry > Junior Professor Solar Energy Profile Fields Profile Fields > Advanced Fields Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Chemistry > Former Professors
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	500 Science > 530 Physics 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2018 10:50
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2018 11:18
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/41719