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In weakly interacting organic semiconductors, static and dynamic disorder often have an important impact on transport properties. Describing charge transport in these systems requires an approach that correctly takes structural and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Susanne Leitherer , Christof M. Jäger , Andreas Krause , Marcus Halik , Tim Clark , Michael Thoss

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

The hopping transport of charge carries in 3-dimensional disordered semiconductors is analyzed in this work. It is assumed that the density of localized states is a decreasing function of energy and contribution of thermoactivated jumps…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Nikolaenkov , V. I. Arkhipov , V. R. Nikitenko

The charge carrier localization length {\alpha} is a crucial, yet often ignored parameter of conjugated polymers that exponentially influences electronic conductivity. Here, we argue it is a unique proxy of the energy landscape as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Morteza Shokrani , Felix Maximilian Graf , Anton Kompatscher , Dennis Derewjanko , Martijn Kemerink

The relaxation phenomena of charge carriers in hopping system have been demonstrated and investigated theoretically. An analytical model describing the charge carrier relaxation is proposed based on the hopping transport theory. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-16 Nianduan Lu , Ling Li , Pengxiao Suna , Ming Liu

Organic semiconductors are indispensable for today's display technologies in form of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and further optoelectronic applications. However, organic materials do not reach the same charge carrier mobility as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-12 Patrick Reiser , Manuel Konrad , Artem Fediai , Salvador Léon , Wolfgang Wenzel , Pascal Friederich

We examine the charge transport through disordered arrays of metallic dots using numerical simulations. We find power law scaling in the current-voltage curves for arrays containing no voids, while for void-filled arrays charge bottlenecks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Charge transport in disordered organic semiconductors occurs by hopping of charge carriers between localized sites that are randomly distributed in a strongly energy dependent density of states. Extracting disorder and hopping parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-08 Tanvi Upreti , Yuming Wang , Huotian Zhang , Dorothea Scheunemann , Feng Gao , Martijn Kemerink

Diamond detectors are attractive for operation in harsh radiation environments because they combine radiation tolerance, fast signal formation, and low leakage current. Realistic detector-response simulations require an accurate description…

Charge transport in organic semiconductors is notoriously extremely sensitive to the presence of disorder, both internal and external (i.e. related to the interactions with the dielectric layer), especially for n-type materials. Internal…

Charge transport in disordered two-dimensional (2D) systems showcases a myriad of unique phenomenologies that highlight different aspects of the underlying quantum dynamics. Electrons in such systems undergo a crossover from ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 H. P. Veiga , S. M. João , J. M. Alendouro Pinho , J. P. Santos Pires , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes

In this work we use a three-dimensional Pauli master equation to investigate the charge carrier mobility of a two-phase system, which can mimic donor-acceptor and amorphous- crystalline bulk heterojunctions. Our approach can be separated…

Carbon nanotube networks are one of the candidate materials to function as malleable, transparent, conducting films, with the technologically promising application of being used as flexible electronic displays. Nanotubes disorderly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Luiz F. C. Pereira , M. S. Ferreira

Charge transport in crystalline organic semiconductors is intrinsically limited by the presence of large thermal molecular motions, which are a direct consequence of the weak van der Waals inter-molecular interactions. These lead to an…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-18 S. Fratini , D. Mayou , S. Ciuchi

We develop a theory for density, disorder, and temperature dependent electrical conductivity of bilayer graphene in the presence of long-range charged impurity scattering as well as an additional short-range disorder of independent origin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi

The driven transport of plastic systems in various disordered backgrounds is studied within mean field theory. Plasticity is modeled using non-convex interparticle potentials that allow for phase slips. This theory most naturally describes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Karl Saunders , J. M. Schwarz , M. Cristina Marchetti , A. Alan Middleton

Simulations of charge transport in amorphous semiconductors are often performed in microscopically sized systems. As a result, charge carrier mobilities become system-size dependent. We propose a simple method for extrapolating a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Pascal Kordt , Thomas Speck , Denis Andrienko

We report the observation in the direct space of the transport of a few thousand charges submitted to a tunable electric field along the surface of a silicon oxide layer. Charges are both deposited and observed using the same Electrostatic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Lambert , G. De Loubens , C. Guthmann , M. Saint-Jean , T. Melin

Energetic disorder in disordered organic solids has been found to alter their physical parameters. Here, we have demonstrated, by means of Monte-Carlo simulation and experiments, that the electroluminescence (EL) spectrum is dependent on…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-06 Arunandan Kumar , Priyanka Tyagi , Ritu Srivastava , M. N. Kamalasanan

Charge transport in amorphous oxide semiconductors is often described as the band transport affected by disorder in the form of random potential barriers (RB). Theoretical studies in the framework of this approach neglected so far the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-08 S. D. Baranovskii , A. V. Nenashev , J. O. Oelerich , S. H. M. Greiner , A. V. Dvurechenskii , F. Gebhard