Predictive study of charge transport in disordered semiconducting polymers.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
We present a theoretical study of charge transport in disordered semiconducting polymers that relates the charge mobility to the chemical structure and the physical morphology in a novel multiscale approach. Our studies, focusing on poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) (PFO), show that the charge mobility is dominated by pathways with the highest interchain charge-transfer rates. We also find that disorder is not always detrimental to charge transport. We find good agreement with experimental time-of-flight mobility data in highly aligned PFO films.
Medical subject headings
- Crystallization
- Models, Chemical
- Nanostructures
- Nanotechnology
- Polymers
- Semiconductors