Carrier Transport in Organic
Course code: AMSN – PhDC04
Credits points (ECTS): 3
Lecturer in charge: Dr. Nguyen Van Quyen
Description of the course:
This course will cover the fundamentals of transport in organic devices. It provides transport principles involved with the electrical-optical-mechanical properties of materials. It covers polymeric/small molecular materials and focuses on structure-property relationships on transport properties. Finally, it will deal with some examples of specific organic devices such as memristors, and organic batteries.
Objectives of the course:
Students need to understand all transport parameters influencing the performance of organic devices.
Contents of the course:
- Basic Concepts of Charge Transport in Organic Solids
- Electronic Structure of Organic Solids
- Comparison of the Molecular Picture and the SSH Approach of Treating Charge Carriers in Semiconducting Conjugated Polymers
- General Approach to Charge Transfer Mechanisms
- Charge Transport at Low Carrier Density
- Experimental Approaches
- Conceptual Frameworks: Disorder-Based Models
- Conceptual Frameworks: Polaronic Contribution to Transport
- Survey of Representative Experimental Results
- Charge Transport at High Carrier Density
- Charge Transport in the Presence of Space Charge
- Transport in Doped Semiconductors
- Charge Transport in the Strong Coupling Regime
- Intra-Chain Transport at Short-Time Scales
- Band Transport
- Charge Injection
- Mechanism of Charge Carrier Injection
- Ohmic Injection
References:
- Jiri George Drobny, Polymers for electricity and electronics: Materials, properties and applications, Wiley, 2012.
- Gang Chen, Nanoscale energy transport and conversion, Oxford University Press, 2005.