Global Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Theory of Hopping Exciton Transport in Disordered Semiconductors

Autor: Ansari-Rad, Mehdi, Athanasopoulos, Stavros
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. B 98, 085204 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.085204
Popis: We develop a temperature dependent theory for singlet exciton hopping transport in disordered semiconductors. It draws on the transport level concept within a F\"orster transfer model and bridges the gap in describing the transition from equilibrium to non-equilibrium time dependent spectral diffusion. We test the validity range of the developed model using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and find agreement over a broad range of temperatures. It reproduces the scaling of the diffusion length and spectral shift with the dimensionless disorder parameter and describes in a unified manner the transition from equilibrium to non-equilibrium transport regime. We find that the diffusion length in the non-equilibrium regime does not scale with the the third power of the F\"orster radius. The developed theory provides a powerful tool for interpreting time-resolved and steady state spectroscopy experiments in a variety of disordered materials, including organic semiconductors and colloidal quantum dots.
Databáze: arXiv