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- van de Ruit, Kevin, et al.
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The Curious Out-of-Plane Conductivity of PEDOT:PSS
- 2013
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Ingår i: Advanced Functional Materials. - : Wiley-VCH Verlag. - 1616-301X .- 1616-3028. ; 23:46, s. 5787-5793
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For its application as transparent conductor in light-emitting diodes and photovoltaic cells, both the in-plane and out-of-plane conductivity of PEDOT:PSS are important. However, studies into the conductivity of PEDOT:PSS rarely address the out-of-plane conductivity and those that do, report widely varying results. Here a systematic study of the out-of-plane charge transport in thin films of PEDOT:PSS with varying PSS content is presented. To this end, the PEDOT:PSS is enclosed in small interconnects between metallic contacts. An unexpected, but strong dependence of the conductivity on interconnect diameter is observed for PEDOT:PSS formulations without high boiling solvent. The change in conductivity correlates with a diameter dependent change in PEDOT:PSS layer thickness. It is suggested that the order of magnitude variation in out-of-plane conductivity with only a 3-4-fold layer thickness variation can quantitatively be explained on basis of a percolating cluster model.
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- van de Ruit, Kevin, et al.
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Quasi-One Dimensional in-Plane Conductivity in Filamentary Films of PEDOT:PSS
- 2013
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Ingår i: Advanced Functional Materials. - : Wiley-VCH Verlag. - 1616-301X .- 1616-3028. ; 23:46, s. 5778-5786
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The mechanism and magnitude of the in-plane conductivity of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS) thin fi lms is determined using temperature dependent conductivity measurements for various PEDOT: PSS weight ratios with and without a high boiling solvent (HBS). Without the HBS the in-plane conductivity of PEDOT: PSS is lower and for all studied weight ratios well described by the relation s = s0exp[-T0 T 0.5] with T 0 a characteristic temperature. The exponent 0.5 indicates quasi-one dimensional (quasi-1D) variable range hopping (VRH). The conductivity prefactor s 0 varies over three orders of magnitudes and follows a power law s 0. c 3.5 PEDOT with c PEDOT the weight fraction of PEDOT in PEDOT: PSS. The fi eld dependent conductivity is consistent with quasi-1D VRH. Combined, these observations suggest that conductance takes place via a percolating network of quasi-1D fi laments. Using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) fi lamentary structures are observed in vitrifi ed dispersions and dried fi lms. For PEDOT: PSS fi lms with HBS, the conductivity also exhibits quasi-1D VRH behavior when the temperature is less than 200 K. The low characteristic temperature T 0 indicates that HBStreated fi lms are close to the critical regime between a metal and an insulator. In this case, the conductivity prefactor scales linearly with c PEDOT, indicating the conduction is no longer limited by a percolation of fi laments. The lack of observable changes in TEM upon processing with the HBS suggests that the changes in conductivity are due to a smaller spread in the conductivities of individual fi laments, or a higher probability for neighboring fi laments to be connected rather than being caused by major morphological modifi cation of the material.
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- Abdalla, Hassan, et al.
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Effective Temperature and Universal Conductivity Scaling in Organic Semiconductors
- 2015
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Nature Publishing Group. - 2045-2322. ; 5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate the scalability of the temperature-and electric field-dependence of the conductivity of disordered organic semiconductors to universal curves by two different but commonly employed methods; by so-called universal scaling and by using the effective temperature concept. Experimentally both scaling methods were found to be equally applicable to the out-of-plane charge transport in PEDOT: PSS thin films of various compositions. Both methods are shown to be equivalent in terms of functional dependence and to have identical limiting behavior. The experimentally observed scaling behavior can be reproduced by a numerical nearest-neighbor hopping model, accounting for the Coulomb interaction, the high charge carrier concentration and the energetic disorder. The underlying physics can be captured in a simple empirical model, describing the effective temperature of the charge carrier distribution as the outcome of a heat balance between Joule heating and (effective) temperature-dependent energy loss to the lattice.
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