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有机半导体中极化子运动的同位素效应

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.69.20200789

Isotope effect of carrier transport in organic semiconductors

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.69.20200789
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  • 针对近年来实验发现的有机半导体电磁光现象中的同位素效应, 基于强电声耦合的紧束缚模型, 利用非绝热近似分别研究了小分子晶体和聚合物链内的极化子的运动, 并通过引入有效质量, 解释了同种材料中迁移率与基团质量的关系. 结果表明氢元素的氘化或碳13元素的存在都会降低有机材料迁移率, 且同位素效应的大小与电声耦合的大小有关. 在同位素取代浓度不变时, 同位素的分布不影响整个器件的迁移率. 本文讨论了各种可能的同位素效应并对其物理机理进行了分析, 为利用同位素效应调控有机器件性能提供理论支持.

     

    Isotopic substitution can effectively tune the device performances of organic semiconductors. According to the experimental results of isotope effects in electric, light and magnetic process in organic semiconductors, we adopt the tight-binding model with strong electron-phonon coupling to study the isotope effects on carrier transport. We try to give a quantificational explanation and show the physical origin of isotope effects on mobility in organic semiconductors in this work. Using polaron transport dynamics with diabatic approach, we simulate the carrier transport in an array of small molecule crystals under weak bias. Because of strong electron-phonon coupling in organic materials, an injected electron will induce lattice distortion, and the carriers are no longer free electrons or holes, but elementary excitations such as solitons, polarons or bipolarons. Our simulation results indicate that the existence of deuterium and 13C element will reduce the mobility of organic material, which means that the isotopic substitution can be utilized to manifest organic device performance. Besides, we also find that the isotope effect on mobility will increase with electron-phonon coupling increasing. This suggests that both the mass of lattice groups and electron-phonon coupling should be taken into account to understand the isotope effects in organic semiconductors. With the consideration of that, we derive the effective mass of polaron based on the continuum model, and verify that effective mass can successfully describe the isotope effect on mobility. The effective mass of carrier can be measured to represent the property of a material, which can tell us whether we need the isotopic substitution in organic layer to improve the device performance. Then we present the microcosmic movement of a polaron at the moment when it encounters isotopic substituted molecules. We come to the conclusion that the isotopic distribution will affect the instantaneous speed of the carrier, but has little effect on the mobility of the whole device when the substituted concentration remains constant. In conclusion, after simulating various possible isotope effects in materials, analyzing its physical mechanism and comparing calculation results in experiment, we provide a theoretical foundation for describing the isotope effects on mobility, which can be a basis of improving the performances of organic semiconductor devices.

     

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