Molecular-weight-dependent mobilities in regioregular poly(3-hexyl- thiophene) diodes

Chiatzun Goh; R. Joseph Kline; Michael D. McGehee; Ekaterina N. Kadnikova; Jean M.J. Fŕchet

doi:10.1063/1.1891301

Molecular-weight-dependent mobilities in regioregular poly(3-hexyl- thiophene) diodes

Chiatzun Goh^*, R. Joseph Kline, Michael D. McGehee, Ekaterina N. Kadnikova, Jean M.J. Fŕchet

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Abstract

We have investigated the transport properties in the direction perpendicular to the substrate of regioregular poly(3-hexyl-thiophene) of different molecular weights (MW) in a diode geometry. In these devices, which exhibit space-charge-limited behavior, we find that the mobility values at room temperature increase from 1.33× 10-5 cm2 V s to 3.30× 10-4 cm2 V s as the MW is increased from 2.9 to 31.1 kgmol. The mobility is found to be field independent for high MW films, but field dependent for the low MW films. The current-voltage characteristics of the diodes are also studied as a function of temperature from 160 K to 300 K. The activation energy for carrier transport, extracted from the Arrhenius plot, is found to decrease gradually from 143 meV to 126 meV as the MW is increased.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	122110
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	86
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1891301
State	Published - Mar 21 2005
Externally published	Yes

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The authors thank A. Salleo from PARC for help with and access to their probe station setup. This work was supported in part by a Kodak Research Fellowship, the Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies at Stanford University, and the Air Force office of Scientific Research and the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences.

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