Effect of Dynamic Disorder on Charge Transport in Organic Molecules

The charge transfer integral, site energy and the stacking angle fluctuations are used to study the hole and electron transport in recently synthesized dialkyl substituted thienothiophene caped benzobisthiazole (BDHTT-BBT) and methyl-substituted dicyanovinyl-capped quinquethiophene (DCV5T-Me) molecules. The charge transfer parameters, such as coherent and incoherent rate coefficients, hopping conductivity, mobility, disorder drift time, drift force, potential equilibrium rate and density flux rate are calculated and discussed. It has been observed that the charge decay up to the crossover point (or disorder drift time) is exponential, non-dispersive and charge transport follows the band-like transport. Beyond the disorder drift time, the charge decay is not fully exponential, dispersive and it follows the incoherent hopping transport. The proposed expressions for density flux and diffusion shows their dependency on dynamic disorder and is in agreement with the Troisi model on diffusion limited by thermal disorder. The density flux rate is directly related with the drift force which facilitates the charge transfer. Calculated electron hopping conductivity in the BDHTT-BBT and DCV5T-Me is 0.8 and 0.18 S/cm, respectively. Molecule BDHTT-BBT has good electron mobility of 0.36 cm^2/V s, which has larger electron density flux rate and drift force of 1.7 x10^20 C/m^3 s and 1.44x10^-12 N.

K. Navamani, K. Senthilkumar · 2017