The charge transport in organic semiconductors and the contact characteristics in
organic devices have been investigated. A universal mobility model which can be applied to
organic semiconductors has been derived. This model is based on the variable range
hopping theory and can explain the temperature, electric field, and carrier
concentration dependencies of mobility. An electric field dependent transport
energy model has been formulated. This model extends Arkhipov's transport
energy theory by considering the effect from an electric field on hopping
transport. It has been shown that the transport energy increases with increasing temperature,
but the effect from an electric field on transport energy is not
monotonic. This information can be used to analyze the mobility, which increases with the electric
field at a low electric regime, while it decreases at a high electric field regime. A
diffusion-controlled injection model has also been obtained. This model is based
on drift-diffusion theory and multiple-trapping transport theory. This model
can explain the injection current characteristics of temperature, electric
field, and the energy barrier between metal and organic semiconductors. Good
agreement between model and experimental data has been found. The master equation
has been proved to be a good choice in describing the
hopping transport in organic semiconductors. An injection model based on the master
equation has been derived. This model considers the effect of image charge
force and back-flow hopping on the net injection current. It concludes that the
Richandson-Schottky model (RS) is valid only in a low electric field and low
energy barrier between metal and organic semiconductors.
At the same time, a model describing space-charge-limited current (SCLC)
has been built. This model is based on hopping transport and density of
states (DOS) with a Gaussian function. By treating the states at the center of
a Gaussian DOS as transport sites and those at the tail of a Gaussian DOS as
trapping sites, we conclude that SCLC controlled by a Gaussian DOS
distribution obeys the relation formulated by Mott and Gurney only in the
low current regime and that the field-dependent mobility changes this relationship
slightly.
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