High-mobility, trap-free charge transport in conjugated polymer diodes

Nikolka, Mark, Broch, Katharina, Armitage, John, Hanifi, David, Nowack, Peer J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-7832, Venkateshvaran, Deepak, Sadhanala, Aditya, Saska, Jan, Mascal, Mark, Jung, Seok Heon, Lee, Jin Kyun, McCulloch, Iain, Salleo, Alberto and Sirringhaus, Henning (2019) High-mobility, trap-free charge transport in conjugated polymer diodes. Nature Communications, 10 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

Charge transport in conjugated polymer semiconductors has traditionally been thought to be limited to a low-mobility regime by pronounced energetic disorder. Much progress has recently been made in advancing carrier mobilities in field-effect transistors through developing low-disorder conjugated polymers. However, in diodes these polymers have to date not shown much improved mobilities, presumably reflecting the fact that in diodes lower carrier concentrations are available to fill up residual tail states in the density of states. Here, we show that the bulk charge transport in low-disorder polymers is limited by water-induced trap states and that their concentration can be dramatically reduced through incorporating small molecular additives into the polymer film. Upon incorporation of the additives we achieve space-charge limited current characteristics that resemble molecular single crystals such as rubrene with high, trap-free SCLC mobilities up to 0.2 cm 2 /Vs and a width of the residual tail state distribution comparable to k B T.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	chemistry(all),biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology(all),physics and astronomy(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1600
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2020 05:34
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 14:04
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74077
DOI:	10.1038/s41467-019-10188-y

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