Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Correlating charge and thermoelectric transport to paracrystallinity in conducting polymers

  • Anas Abutaha,
  • Pawan Kumar,
  • Erol Yildirim,
  • Wen Shi,
  • Shuo-Wang Yang,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Kedar Hippalgaonkar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15399-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Obtaining a complete picture for charge transport in conducting polymers is vital to designing new organic electronic materials. Here, the authors show that a gaussian density of states clarifies the transport physics in conducting polymers by revealing the role of carrier scattering on transport.