https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2016-16264-6
Regular Article
An organic-heterojunction diode current equation including random site trap density
1
The part of modeling & simulation of device physics, the office of computational energy science (private lab), 443-373, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2
CAE, Platform Technology Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, 443-803, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
3
Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 305-701, Daejeon, Korea
* e-mail: smkim417@hotmail.com
Received:
1
July
2015
Accepted:
7
July
2016
Published online:
5
August
2016
The current-voltage characteristics of an organic heterojunction (HJ), where random site trap density at the donor-acceptor (D-A) interface is included, is numerically investigated based on the polaron-pair (PP) model (Phys. Rev. B. 82, 155305 (2010)). To derive the analytic equation, the electric field at the D-A interface, which is included in the field parameter b, is first approximated to estimate the polaron-pair dissociation rate,
. It is then assumed that the quasi-Fermi level
at the donor/acceptor lies in the trap energy level (
) at random sites without a direct dependence on applied bias (
), but on a HOMO/LUMO with
dependence. As a result, the low diode current (DC) at forward bias is attributed to the
, which is lower than the LUMO at acceptors, and is higher than the HOMO at donors. This implies that the pattern of DC is at forward biases depending upon the position of
.
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