1. Temperature-Dependent Charge Transport in Polymer-Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Networks with Different Diameter Distributions
- Author
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Stefan P. Schießl, Maximilian Brohmann, Sybille Allard, Marcel Rother, Jana Zaumseil, Eduard Preis, and Ullrich Scherf
- Subjects
chemistry.chemical_classification ,Range (particle radiation) ,Materials science ,Band gap ,Contact resistance ,Transistor ,02 engineering and technology ,Polymer ,Carbon nanotube ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,Electron transport chain ,0104 chemical sciences ,Surfaces, Coatings and Films ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,law.invention ,General Energy ,chemistry ,Chemical physics ,law ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,0210 nano-technology ,Quantum tunnelling - Abstract
The availability of purely semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (s-SWCNT) dispersions has prompted their widespread application in solution-processed thin-film transistors with excellent device performance but has also raised the question of how their precise composition influences charge transport properties in random networks. Here, we compare hole and electron transport in three different polymer-sorted s-SWCNT networks from nearly monochiral (6,5) nanotubes (diameter 0.76 nm) to mixed networks of s-SWCNTs with medium (0.8–1.3 nm) and large (1.2–1.6 nm) diameters. Temperature-dependent field-effect mobilities are extracted from gated four-point probe measurements that exclude any contributions by contact resistance and indicate thermally activated transport. The mobility data can be fitted to the fluctuation-induced tunneling model, although with significant differences between the network compositions. The network with the broadest diameter and thus bandgap range results in the strongest tempe...
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- 2018