Abstract
Time-of-flight measurements on a wide variety of molecularly-doped polymers reveal carrier mobilities that exhibit an exponential dependence on the square root of the applied electric field. Recent attempts to explain the observed field dependence have focused on the role played by spatial and energetic disorder. It as also been conjectured that the charge-dipole interactions often identified as the source of energetic disorder could be of sufficient range to lead to correlations in the energies of neighboring hopping sites. We have analytically explored the effect of such correlations on high field carrier transport in random potentials, and discuss how particular features of the correlations associated with charge-dipole interactions might lead to behavior similar to that seen in experiment.
Recommended Citation
P. E. Parris, "Relation between Charge-Dipole Interactions and the Sqrt(E)-Dependent Mobility in Molecularly Doped Polymers," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 2850, pp. 139 - 146, SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Aug 1996.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1117/12.254238
Meeting Name
Organic Photorefractive Materials and Xerographic Photoreceptors (1996: Aug. 7-8, Denver, CO)
Department(s)
Physics
Keywords and Phrases
Carrier mobility; Charge dipole interactions; Energetic disorder; Molecularly-doped polymers; Time-of-flight measurements; Doping (additives); Electric field effects; Mathematical models; Order disorder transitions; Organic polymers; Transport properties; Xerography
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-0819422385
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0277-786X
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Accepted Manuscript
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 1996 SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Aug 1996
