Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.110, No.21, 10509-10513, 1999
Effect of residual solvent on carrier transport in polysilane
The effect of residual solvent on the carrier transport in poly(methylphenylsilane) films which were formed from toluene and tetrahydrofuran solutions and dried in different conditions has been investigated by a time-of-flight technique. The dependence of hole drift mobility on the electric field and temperature has been analyzed in a framework of the superimposed disorder and polaron effect. It is found that no parameter but the polaron binding energy has a strong relation with an amount of the residual solvent. The polaron binding energies of 0-126 meV in addition to the native polaron binding energy of 80 meV for polysilane are discussed as solvent-related values.