Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol.35, No.17, 2803-2809, 1997
Dispersive Aspects of the High-Field Hopping Mobility of Molecularly Doped Solids with Dipolar Disorder
The time-of-flight mobility of photoinjected charges in molecularly doped polymers obeys a Poole-Frenkel law, mu proportional to exp(gamma root E), which is commonly viewed as arising from hopping transport among sites with a large degree of energetic disorder. Recent theoretical investigations have focused on long-range correlations that characterize site energies when the dominant mechanism for energetic fluctuations is the interaction of charge carriers with randomly-oriented permanent dipoles of the dopant and host polymer. An exact calculation of the steady-state drift velocity v(d) for a one-dimensional system with correlated dipolar disorder predicts a Poole-Frenkel law similar to that observed. In order to investigate another feature commonly observed in the high-field measurements, namely, the anomalous dispersion of the current-time transients, we have performed an exact calculation of the field-dependent diffusion constant D for the same dipolar disorder model. In the bulk limit we obtain an expression D = (KT/e)partial derivative v(d)/partial derivative E that generalizes the normal Einstein relation and predicts a strongly field-dependent diffusion constant.
Keywords:CHARGE-TRANSPORT PROCESSES;MONTE-CARLO;POLYMER MATRICES;HOLE TRANSPORT;BINDER;MODEL;DEPENDENCE;DIFFUSION;SYSTEMS;LATTICE