Title:	Polaron difusion in pentathienoacene crystals
Authors:	Pereira, Marcelo Lopes Sousa, Rafael Timóteo Giozza, William Ferreira Ribeiro, Luiz Antonio
Assunto::	Ciência dos materiais Física
Issue Date:	2020
Publisher:	Springer Nature
Citation:	PEREIRA, Marcelo Lopes et al. Polaron difusion in pentathienoacene crystals. Scientific Reports, v. 10, 7665, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63699-w. Disponível em: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63699-w. Acesso em: 11 fev. 2022.
Abstract:	Molecular crystals have been used as prototypes for studying the energetic and dynamic properties of charge carriers in organic electronics. The growing interest in oligoacenes and fused-ring oligothiophenes in the last two decades is due, in particular, to the success achieved in conceiving pentacene-based organic photovoltaic devices. In the present work, a one-dimensional Holstein-Peierls model is designed to study the temperature-dependent polaron transport in pentathienoacene (PTA) lattices. The tight-binding Hamiltonian employed here takes into account intra and intermolecular electron-lattice interactions. Results reveal that polarons in PTAs can be stable structures even at high temperatures, about 400 K. During the dynamical process, these charge carriers present a typical 1D random walk diffusive motion with a low activation energy of 13 meV and a room temperature diffusivity constant of 1.07 × 10−3 cm2 s−1. Importantly, these critical values for the polaron diffusion and activation energy are related to the choice of model parameters, which are adopted to describe pristine lattices.
Licença::	(CC BY) Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. © The Author(s) 2020
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63699-w
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