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Tarig Mustafa

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Controllable bipolaron formation unveiling structural features of trap states in organic charge transport

Magnetic resonance methods offer a unique chance for in-depth study of conductive organic material systems, not only accounts for number of charge carriers, but also allows manipulations of spin dynamics of particles. Here we present a study of continuous-wave electrically detected magnetic resonance on a range of organic conjugate polymers under transistor architecture, with tunability in both carrier concentration and drifting electric field. We demonstrate the general existence of bipolaron between mobile and trapped charges at the magnetic resonance condition, then estimates the wavefunction expansion of charge carriers on their hopping sites along conductive pathways. This finding allows direct observation of energetically disordered trap sites under the charge hopping picture, linking-up the microscopic structural properties to the bulk electronic performances.

physics.app-ph

Structural and dynamic disorder, not ionic trapping, controls charge transport in highly doped conducting polymers

Doped organic semiconductors are critical to emerging device applications, including thermoelectrics, bioelectronics, and neuromorphic computing devices. It is commonly assumed that low conductivities in these materials result primarily from charge trapping by the Coulomb potentials of the dopant counter-ions. Here, we present a combined experimental and theoretical study rebutting this belief. Using a newly developed doping technique, we find the conductivity of several classes of high-mobility conjugated polymers to be strongly correlated with paracrystalline disorder but poorly correlated with ionic size, suggesting that Coulomb traps do not limit transport. A general model for interacting electrons in highly doped polymers is proposed and carefully parameterized against atomistic calculations, enabling the calculation of electrical conductivity within the framework of transient localisation theory. Theoretical calculations are in excellent agreement with experimental data, providing insights into the disordered-limited nature of charge transport and suggesting new strategies to further improve conductivities.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci