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Pankaj Kumar1, S C Jain, Vikram Kumar
1Center for Organic Electronics, National Physical Laboratory, Dr K S Krishnan road, New Delhi-110012, India. pankaj@mail.nplindia.ernet.in
Abstract:
Current-voltage (J-V) characteristics of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) are studied at different temperatures upto high voltages approximately 20V in the hole-only device configuration. The characteristics are studied in the temperature range 310-210K. In the intermediate voltage range the J-V characteristics follow J proportional to V(l+1), where l > 1. As the voltage increases to high values J still varies as a power law i.e. as V(m), but contrary to the literature result m becomes < 2. This behavior is explained theoretically in terms of non-zero injection Schottky barriers. The complete analytical expressions for the actual trap filled limit voltage (V'(TFL)) and J-V curves beyond V'(TFL) are presented.
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