Generation and drift of photocarriers in a conjugated ladder polymer

Autor: Martin A. Abkowitz, Milan Stolka, Samson A. Jenekhe, John A. Osaheni, Homer Antoniadis
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Synthetic Metals. 60:149-157
ISSN: 0379-6779
DOI: 10.1016/0379-6779(93)91235-t
Popis: Generation and drift of photocarriers in thin films of the conjugated ladder polymer, poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthroline) (BBL), are explored by using transient photoconductivity methods. An estimation of a lower limit for photogeneration efficiency of mobile holes is found to be close to 10 −2 at an electric field of 5×10 5 V/cm. The drift of photogenerated carriers is found to be severely range limited by trapping events. In addition persistent decay of photocurrent is detected following the termination of a steadystate monochromatic illumination. The form of the persistent photocurrent suggests a broad range of release times of the trapped carriers which can be attributed to a disorder-induceddistribution of trapping sites.
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