Journal
SYNTHETIC METALS
Volume 162, Issue 9-10, Pages 788-793Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2012.03.003
Keywords
Poly(2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene); Thermal annealing; Thermoelectric property; Seebeck coefficient; Electrical conductivity
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The thermoelectric property of doped films of a thermotropic liquid-crystalline polythiophene poly(2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene) PBTTT-C14 was studied for the first time. Drop-casted films of PBTTT-C14, annealed or not, were doped by nitrosonium phosphate NOPF6 and their thermoelectric performance was compared. Power factor of the doped films was increased by a factor of three at room temperature when pristine films were thermally annealed. Both the electrical conductivity and the Seebeck coefficient of doped films benefited from the annealing process. Films with and without thermal annealing were characterized by ultraviolet-visible near-infrared (UV-vis NIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) both before and after being doped. Improvement in structure order caused by annealing was verified in pristine films. Furthermore, the ordered structure in annealed films was largely retained after the doping treatment. The higher structure order in pristine films with annealing and the preservation of structure feature in the annealed films throughout the doping process were suggested to lead to higher bulk mobility which accounted for the enhanced power factor. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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