Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Tuning charge transport dynamics via clustering of doping in organic semiconductor thin films

  • Connor J. Boyle,
  • Meenakshi Upadhyaya,
  • Peijian Wang,
  • Lawrence A. Renna,
  • Michael Lu-Díaz,
  • Seung Pyo Jeong,
  • Nicholas Hight-Huf,
  • Ljiljana Korugic-Karasz,
  • Michael D. Barnes,
  • Zlatan Aksamija,
  • D. Venkataraman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10567-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Designing organic thermoelectric materials with high electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient is challenging due to the direct relationship between these two properties. Here, the authors explore the role of dopant spatial distribution on thermoelectric performance in conjugated polymers.