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Dispersive Aspects of the High-Field Hopping Mobility of Molecularly Doped Solids with Dipolar Disorder
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics
  • Paul Ernest Parris, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • David H. Dunlap
  • Vasudev M. Kenkre
Abstract

The time-of-flight mobility of photoinjected charges in molecularly doped polymers obeys a Poole-Frenkel law, μ ∝ exp(γ√E), 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.

Department(s)
Physics
Keywords and Phrases
  • Calculations,
  • Charge carriers,
  • Diffusion,
  • Doping (additives),
  • Mathematical models,
  • Organic conductors,
  • Photoconducting materials,
  • Dipolar disorder,
  • Einstein relation,
  • Field dependence diffusion constant,
  • High field hopping mobility,
  • Poole-Frenkel law,
  • Steady state drift velocity,
  • Polymers
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 1997 John Wiley & Sons Inc., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
12-1-1997
Publication Date
01 Dec 1997
Disciplines
Citation Information
Paul Ernest Parris, David H. Dunlap and Vasudev M. Kenkre. "Dispersive Aspects of the High-Field Hopping Mobility of Molecularly Doped Solids with Dipolar Disorder" Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics Vol. 35 Iss. 17 (1997) p. 2803 - 2809 ISSN: 0887-6266
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul-parris/17/