1. High Seebeck Coefficient in Mixtures of Conjugated Polymers.
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Zuo, Guangzheng, Liu, Xianjie, Fahlman, Mats, and Kemerink, Martijn
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SEEBECK coefficient , *CONJUGATED polymers , *SEMICONDUCTOR doping , *MOLECULAR orbitals , *SIMULATION methods & models - Abstract
Abstract: A universal method to obtain record‐high electronic Seebeck coefficients is demonstrated while preserving reasonable conductivities in doped blends of organic semiconductors through rational design of the density of states (DOSs). A polymer semiconductor with a shallow highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level‐poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT) is mixed with materials with a deeper HOMO (PTB7, TQ1) to form binary blends of the type P3HT
x :B1‐x (0 ≤x ≤ 1) that is p‐type doped by F4TCNQ. ForB = PTB7, a Seebeck coefficientS = 1100 µV K−1 with conductivity σ = 0.3 S m−1 atx = 0.10 is achieved, while for B = TQ1,S = 2000 µV K−1 and σ = 0.03 S m−1 atx = 0.05 is found. Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations with parameters based on experiments show good agreement with the experimental results, confirming the intended mechanism. The simulations are used to derive a design rule for parameter tuning. These results can become relevant for low‐power, low‐cost applications like (providing power to) autonomous sensors, in which a high Seebeck coefficient translates directly to a proportionally reduced number of legs in the thermogenerator, and hence in reduced fabrication cost and complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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