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.
- 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
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