Issue 6, 2003
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Influence of π-conjugation length on mobilities of charge carriers in conducting polymers

Yutaka Harima,*a   Xiaoqing Jiang,b   Yoshihito Kunugi,b   Kazuo Yamashita,b   Akinobu Naka,c   Kyung Koo Leec  and  Mitsuo Ishikawac  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
E-mail: harima@mls.ias.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

b Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

c Department of Chemical Technology, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Kurashiki, Japan

Abstract

Mobilities of charge carriers in thin films of a series of copolymers with repeat units consisting of oligothiophenes bridged by Si atoms are measured over a range of oxidation stages in order to study the influence of π-conjugation length on the mobility. The number of thiophene units in oligothiophenes ranges from five to nine, the polymers being designated accordingly by PS5T to PS9T. Mobilities of charge carriers in these polymer films, where intrachain hopping transport is restricted within each oligothienylene unit, are constant in the low doping regions below 1%. As the doping level increases, mobilities for polymers with longer π-conjugation lengths start to rise at lower doping levels. The mobility enhancement follows also an increasing order of the π-conjugation length, although the 30 times enhancement of mobility for PS9T is still smaller than the four orders-of-magnitude increase of mobility observed earlier for electrochemically synthesized poly(3-methylthiophene). The results are discussed with electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical measurements from the viewpoint of the involvement of polarons, π-dimers, and bipolarons as possible charge carriers in the conduction mechanisms.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B301780J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Feb 2003
Accepted
08 Apr 2003
First published
23 Apr 2003

J. Mater. Chem., 2003,13, 1298-1305

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Influence of π-conjugation length on mobilities of charge carriers in conducting polymers

Y. Harima, X. Jiang, Y. Kunugi, K. Yamashita, A. Naka, K. Koo Lee and M. Ishikawa, J. Mater. Chem., 2003, 13, 1298 DOI: 10.1039/B301780J

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