Charge diffusion in semiconducting polymers: Analytical relation between polymer rigidity and time scales for intrachain and interchain hopping

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2637-2641

  Carbone, Paola ^a   Troisi, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

charge transport; coarse grain; persistence length; scaling law; universality

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CHARGE TRANSFER; DIFFUSION; SCALING LAWS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; COARSE GRAINS; INTERCHAIN HOPPING; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; RATE DETERMINING STEP; UNIVERSALITY;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84905750508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501220g     Document Type: Article

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