Device Applications of Organic Materials

Charge Transport in Disordered Solids with Applications in Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 267-305

  von Hauff, Elizabeth ^a   Deibel, Carsten ^b   Dyakonov, Vladimir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge carrier drift mobility; Charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage (CELIV) method; Device applications; Disordered organic semiconductor charge transport; Disordered organic semiconductors; Highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO); Organic vapor phase deposition (OVPD); Space charge limited currents (SCLC); Understanding charge transport property

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ORBITALS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CHARGE CARRIER DRIFT; CHARGE EXTRACTION; DEVICE APPLICATION; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; ORGANIC VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITION; SPACE-CHARGE-LIMITED CURRENT;

CARRIER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84954574112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470095067.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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