Structural origin of gap states in semicrystalline polymers and the implications for charge transport

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Event Physical Review B (Rapid Communications)

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Northrup, John E.
Technical Publications
March 16th 2011
We quantify the degree of disorder in the - stacking direction of crystallites of a high performing semicrystalline semiconducting polymer. Using first principles calculations, we obtain the density of states of a system of - stacked polymer chains with increasing amounts of paracrystalline disorder. We find that for an aligned film of PBTTT the paracrystalline disorder is 7.3% -- this induces a tail of trap states with a breadth of ~100 meV as determined through calculation. This finding agrees with previous device modeling and spectroscopic evidence, and provides physical justification for the mobility edge model.

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J. Rivnay, R. Noriega, J. E. Northrup, M. F. Toney, R. J. Kline, and A. Salleo , Structural origin of gap states in semicrystalline polymers and the implications for charge transport. Physical Review B. 2011 March 15; 83 (12): 121306.

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