A Novel Method to Analyze the Relationship between Thermoelectric Coefficient and Energy Disorder of Any Density of States in an Organic Semiconductor

In this work, a unified method is proposed for analyzing the relationship between the Seebeck coefficient and the energy disorder of organic semiconductors at any multi-parameter density of states (DOS) to study carrier transport in disordered thermoelectric organic semiconductors and the physical m...

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Main Authors: Dong Qin, Jiezhi Chen, Nianduan Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Micromachines
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/14/8/1509
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Summary:In this work, a unified method is proposed for analyzing the relationship between the Seebeck coefficient and the energy disorder of organic semiconductors at any multi-parameter density of states (DOS) to study carrier transport in disordered thermoelectric organic semiconductors and the physical meaning of improved DOS parameters. By introducing the Gibbs entropy, a new multi-parameter DOS and traditional Gaussian DOS are used to verify this method, and the simulated result of this method can well fit the experiment data obtained on three organic devices. In particular, the impact of DOS parameters on the Gibbs entropy can also influence the impact of the energy disorder on the Seebeck coefficient.
ISSN:2072-666X