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Ultrahigh Charge Carrier Mobility in Nanotube Encapsulated Coronene Stack

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-12-13 v1

Abstract

Achieving high charge carrier mobility is the holy grail of organic electronics. In this letter we report a record charge carrier mobility of 14.93 cm2^2 V1^{-1}s1^{-1} through a coronene stack encapsulated in a single walled carbon nanotube (CNT) by using a multiscale modeling technique which combines MD simulations, first principle calculations and Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. For the CNT having a diameter of 1.56 nm we find a highly ordered defect free organization of coronene molecules inside the CNT which is responsible for the high charge carrier mobility. The encapsulated coronene molecules are correlated with a large correlation length of \sim 18 {\AA} which is independent of the length of the coronene column. Our simulation further suggests that coronene molecules can spontaneously enter the CNT, suggesting that the encapsulation is experimentally realizable.

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@article{arxiv.1703.10991,
  title  = {Ultrahigh Charge Carrier Mobility in Nanotube Encapsulated Coronene Stack},
  author = {Saientan Bag and Prabal K. Maiti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10991},
  year   = {2017}
}