Quasiparticles and Band Transport in Organized Nanostructures of Donor-Acceptor Copolymers

Abstract

The performance of organic semiconductor devices is linked to highly-ordered nanostructures of self-assembled molecules and polymers. We employ many-body perturbation theory and study the excited states in bulk compolymers. We discover that acceptors in the polymer scaffold introduce a, hitherto unrecognized, conduction impurity band. The donor units are surrounded by conjugated bands which are only mildly perturbed by the presence of acceptors. Along the polymer axis, mutual interactions among copolymer strands hinder efficient band transport, which is, however, strongly enhanced across individual chains. We find that holes are most effectively transported in the $\pi -\pi$ stacking while electrons in the impurity band follow the edge-to-edge directions. The copolymers exhibit regions with inverted transport polarity, in which electrons and holes are efficiently transported in mutually orthogonal directions.

arXiv comment14 pages, 3 figures

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