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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4880118
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) [FA9550-12-1-0243]
- National Science Foundation [DGE-13333468]
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We establish that an oft-used radical polymer, poly(2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyloxy methacrylate) (PTMA), has a solid-state hole mobility value on the order of 10(-4) cm(2) V-1 s(-1) in a space charge-limited device geometry. Despite being completely amorphous and lacking any p-conjugation, these results demonstrate that the hole mobility of PTMA is comparable to many well-studied conjugated polymers [e. g., poly(3-hexylthiophene)]. Furthermore, we show that the space charge-limited charge carrier mobility of these macromolecules is only a weak function of temperature, in contrast to many thermally-activated models of charge transport in polymeric materials. This key result demonstrates that the charge transport in radical polymers is inherently different than that in semicrystalline, conjugated polymers. These results establish the mechanism of solid-state charge transport in radical polymers and provide macromolecular design principles for this emerging class of organic electronic materials. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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