Requirements on materials for polymer electronics and study of charge carriers’ dynamics in polymer semiconductors

EPR is an unique spectroscopic method for getting information about the principal properties of polymers with particular electronic properties. By this way also the possibilities of the recently developed high-field ESR in the 2 mm-waveband is illustrated. The high field ESR was applied for the study of the dynamics of polarons in conjugated polymers. The rate of the quasi-one-dimensional (1D) intrachain polaron motion and of the three-dimensional (3D) interchain electron hopping has been estimated separately. Both processes depends as well on the molecular structure as on preparation conditions and as a result on the arrangements of molecule segments in the polymer solids. The presence of the absorbed oxygen from ambient atmosphere lead to the existence of positively charged polarons with spin S = 1/2. This report presents results of the investigation of polaron dynamics in an initial and treated P(3-OT) samples at 2-mm waveband EPR. The data obtained on the study of anisotropic dynamics of charge carrier can be used in the understanding and interpretation of electronic processes in molecular poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based solar cells and in polymer transistors.