Electronic States in Quasi-one-Dimensional Copolymeric Sandwich Structures

The electronic properties of xPA/nPPP/yPA sandwiched copolymers with a well-barrier-well structure have been studied by using a tight-binding calculation. It was found that the electronic properties of the neutral states of these sandwiched copolymers are sensitive to the constitutions of PPP and PA monomers and the interface coupling between PA and PPP. It is verified that the quantum tunnelling effect will occur at the lowest conductive state of xPA/nPPP/xPA copolymers.