Journal
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
Volume 15, Issue 10, Pages 2428-2432Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.06.029
Keywords
Drift-diffusion simulation; Space-charge limited currents; Mobility; Traps; Exponential distribution
Funding
- ESF-NFG [orthophoto/100087862]
- Reiner-Lemoine
- Heinrich Boll foundation
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Studying space-charge limited currents enables fundamental insight into the properties of charge carrier transport. However, in unipolar devices with Ohmic contacts, diffusion of charge carriers from the contacts into the intrinsic layer can dominate the current-voltage (J-V) characteristics, especially when the devices are thin as in organic electronic devices (similar to 100 nm). Thus, the common approximation of drift-only trap-limited currents (J similar to Vl+1) caused by an exponential distribution of traps is not applicable for determination of the trap distribution. Here, we show by numerical drift-diffusion simulations of unipolar devices with p-doped injection layers (p-i-p devices), how diffusion currents affect the J-V power law depending on the intrinsic layer thickness for typical transport parameters of organic semiconductors. As the thickness dependence of the power law is characteristic of the trap distribution, the distribution can be determined from a simple variation of the device thickness. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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