Revealing the mechanism of carrier transport in host-guest systems of organic materials with a modified Poisson and drift-diffusion solver

Jun-Yu Huang, Jiun-Haw Lee, Yuh-Renn Wu, Tse-Ying Chen, Yu-Cheng Chiu, Jau-Jiun Huang, Man-kit Leung, and Tien-Lung Chiu
Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 125602 – Published 17 December 2020
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Abstract

A numerical solver based on two-dimensional Poisson and drift-diffusion equations with Gaussian-shaped density of states, the Poole-Frenkel field mobility model, and the Ising model are proposed to analyze carrier transport in the host-guest systems based on organic semiconductors. To investigate the performance of this solver, a series of the electron-only devices and hole-only devices are fabricated with different dopant concentrations. The space-charge-limited current model is applied to the simulation results to calculate the mobility. In addition, experimental results for different host-guest systems are compared to prove the accuracy of the solver. The solver is able to explain the physical mechanisms in different situations. At lower dopant concentrations, the guest states act as traps. Carriers are localized in these guest states, and the carrier mobility decreases dramatically. At the higher dopant concentrations, regions of guest material are able to connect with each other, and carriers have a probability to hop through the guest states. The mobility characteristics gradually approach those of the pure guest material.

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  • Received 10 August 2020
  • Accepted 2 December 2020
  • Corrected 21 December 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.125602

©2020 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

  1. Research Areas
  1. Physical Systems
Polymers & Soft MatterCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Corrections

21 December 2020

Correction: A grant number was missing in the Acknowledgment section and has been inserted.

Authors & Affiliations

Jun-Yu Huang, Jiun-Haw Lee, and Yuh-Renn Wu*

  • Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

Tse-Ying Chen and Yu-Cheng Chiu

  • Graduate Institute of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan

Jau-Jiun Huang and Man-kit Leung

  • Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

Tien-Lung Chiu

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Yuan-Ze University, Taoyuan 32003, Taiwan

  • *yrwu@ntu.edu.tw

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Vol. 4, Iss. 12 — December 2020

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