ISSN:
0887-6266
Keywords:
dipolar disorder
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photoconductors
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organic conductors
;
Physics
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Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The time-of-flight mobility of photoinjected charges in molecularly doped polymers obeys a Poole-Frenkel law, μ ∝ exp(\documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$\gamma \sqrt E $\end{document}), which is commonly viewed as arising from hopping transport among sites with a large degree of energetic disorder. Recent theoretical investigations have focused on long-range correlations that characterize site energies when the dominant mechanism for energetic fluctuations is the interaction of charge carriers with randomly-oriented permanent dipoles of the dopant and host polymer. An exact calculation of the steady-state drift velocity vd for a one-dimensional system with correlated dipolar disorder predicts a Poole-Frenkel law similar to that observed. In order to investigate another feature commonly observed in the high-field measurements, namely, the anomalous dispersion of the current-time transients, we have performed an exact calculation of the field-dependent diffusion constant D for the same dipolar disorder model. In the bulk limit we obtain an expression D = (KT/e) ∂vd/∂E that generalizes the normal Einstein relation and predicts a strongly field-dependent diffusion constant. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 35: 2803-2809, 1997
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
