Monte Carlo simulations of charge transport in organic systems with true off-diagonal disorder

• In this work, a novel method to model off-diagonal disorder in organic materials has been developed. The off-diagonal disorder is taken directly from the geometry of the system, which includes both a distance and an orientational dependence on the constituent molecules, and does not rely on a parametric random distribution. To study this method, a system is generated by running molecular dynamics simulations on phenylene-vinylene oligomers packed into boxes. The impact of the model is then investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations of the charge transport in these boxes and a comparison is made to the commonly used model of off-diagonal disorder, where only the distance dependence is properly accounted for. It is shown that this new model has a significant impact on the charge transport, while still being compliant with previously published and confirmed results.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Annan fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Other Physics Topics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Monte Carlo simulation

molecular dynamics

charge transport

organic materials

conjugated polymers

PPV

off-diagonal disorder

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