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Charge-transfer crystallites as molecular electrical dopants
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Ground-state integer charge transfer is commonly regarded as the basic mechanism of molecular electrical doping in both, conjugated polymers and oligomers. Here, we demonstrate that fundamentally different processes can occur in the two types of organic semiconductors instead. Using complementary experimental techniques supported by theory, we contrast a polythiophene, where molecular p-doping leads to integer charge transfer reportedly localized to one quaterthiophene backbone segment, to the quaterthiophene oligomer itself. Despite a comparable relative increase in conductivity, we observe only partial charge transfer for the latter. In contrast to the parent polymer, pronounced intermolecular frontier-orbital hybridization of oligomer and dopant in 1:1 mixed-stack co-crystallites leads to the emergence of empty electronic states within the energy gap of the surrounding quaterthiophene matrix. It is their Fermi–Dirac occupation that yields mobile charge carriers and, therefore, the co-crystallites—rather than individual acceptor molecules—should be regarded as the dopants in such systems.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Méndez, H., Heimel, G., Winkler, S., Frisch, J., Opitz, A., Sauer, K., Wegner, B., Oehzelt, M., Röthel, C., Duhm, S., Többens, D., Koch, N., & Salzmann, I.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2015-10-06
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 8560-8560
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2269551063
- Cited by
- 409
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 12.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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