Trap distribution for charge carriers in poly(paraphenylene vinylene) (PPV) and its substituted derivative DPOP-PPV

Abstract

In this paper, we present measurements of the charge-carrier transport in the conjugated polymer poly(paraphenylenevinylene) (PPV) and its substituted derivative poly(1,4-phenylene-1,2-diphen- oxyphenyl vinylene) (DPOP-PPV) by using the time-of-flight technique. A method for evaluating the experiments, based on Fourier transform techniques, is presented to calculate the density of localized states from the measured photocurrent within a multiple trapping model. The transport properties of DPOP-PPV can be described by a conventional hopping mechanism, where nearly every monomer acts as a trap. At room temperature, the effective mobility for holes in DPOP-PPV is in the range of ${10}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}4}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$/V s, whereas for PPV, a value of less than ${10}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}8}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$/V s can be estimated.