Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Elementary steps in electrical doping of organic semiconductors

  • Max L. Tietze,
  • Johannes Benduhn,
  • Paul Pahner,
  • Bernhard Nell,
  • Martin Schwarze,
  • Hans Kleemann,
  • Markus Krammer,
  • Karin Zojer,
  • Koen Vandewal,
  • Karl Leo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03302-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Molecular doping is routinely used in organic semiconductor devices nowadays, but the physics at play remains unclarified. Tietze et al. describe it as a two-step process and show it costs little, energetically, to dissociate charge transfer complexes due to energetic disorder of organic semiconductors.