Temperature dependence of carrier transport in conducting polymers: Similarity to amorphous inorganic semiconductors

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 3835-3838

  Kapoor, Ashok K ^a   Jain, S C ^a   Poortmans, J ^a   Kumar, Vikram ^a   Mertens, R ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH TEMPERATURE; J-V CHARACTERISTICS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOBILITY MODEL; NEAR ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE ACTIVATION ENERGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRAPPING MODEL;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; RADIOACTIVITY LOGGING;

CARRIER TRANSPORT;

EID: 18644368954     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1506394     Document Type: Article

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