Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-07-09
SPIE Proc. 3148, 210 (1997)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
9 pages, REVTeX, 1 figure is aviable upon request, to be published in SPIE proc
Scientific paper
Conduction in pristine conjugated polymers (other than polyacetylene) is by polaron hopping between sites corresponding to conjugation lengths. The strong increase of current $I$ with voltage $V$ observed for both emission-limited and ohmic contacts is due in large part to mobility increase as increasing field makes it more possible to overcome internal barriers, such as energy differences between sites. For emission-limited contacts an additional source of nonlinear increase of $I$ with increasing $V$ is greater ability to escpe return to the injecting electrode due to the image force. For ohmic contacts additional nonlinearity comes from space charge effects. We are able to fit $I$ vs. $V$ for electron or hole conduction in some poly($p$-phenylene vinylene), PPV, derivatives with ohmic contacts for reasonable values of the parameters involved.
Conwell E. M.
Wu M. W.
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