Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages 2965-2972Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00394
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- Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0016390]
- National Science Foundation [1650114]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative on Controlling Thermal and Electrical Transport in Organic and Hybrid Materials [AFOSR FA95501210002]
- MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation [DMR-1720256]
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A fundamental understanding of charge transport in polymeric semiconductors requires knowledge of how the electrical conductivity varies with carrier density. The thermopower of semiconducting polymers is also a complex function of carrier density making it difficult to assess structure-property relationships for the thermoelectric power factor. We examined the thermoelectric properties of poly[2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene] (pBTTT-C-14) by measurements of an electrochemical transistor using a polymeric ionic liquid (PIL) gate dielectric that can modulate the carrier concentration from 4 x 10(18) to 3 x 10(20) cm(-3). As carrier density increases, so does the concentration of associated counterions, leading to a greater degree of energetic disorder within the semiconductor. Using thermopower measurements, we show experimentally that the electronic density-of-states broadens with increasing carrier density in the semiconducting polymer. The origin of a commonly observed power law relationship between thermopower and electrical conductivity is discussed and related to the changes in the electronic density-of-states upon doping.
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