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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 25, Issue 35, Pages 5662-5668Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201501666
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers program through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials [DMR-1420541]
- Photovoltaics Program at the Office of Naval Research [N00014-11-10328]
- NSF [CMMI-1255494]
- NSF
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Grain boundaries act as bottlenecks to charge transport in devices comprising polycrystalline organic active layers. To improve device performance, the nature and resulting impact of these boundaries must be better understood. The densities and energy levels of shallow traps within and across triethylsilylethynyl anthradithiophene (TES ADT) spherulites are quantified. The trap density is 7 x 10(10) cm(-2) in devices whose channels reside within a single spherulite and up to 3 x 10(11) cm(-2) for devices whose channels span a spherulite boundary. The activation energy for charge transport, E-A, increases from 34 meV within a spherulite to 50-66 meV across a boundary, depending on the angle of molecular mismatch. Despite being molecular in nature, these E-A's are more akin to those found for charge transport in polymer semiconductors. Presumably, trapped TES ADT at the boundary can electrically connect neighboring spherulites, similar to polymer chains connecting crystallites in polymer semiconductor thin films.
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