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Charge Transport in Disordered Materials

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This chapter surveys general theoretical concepts developed to qualitatively understand and to quantitatively describe the electrical conduction properties of disordered organic and inorganic materials. In particular, these concepts are applied to describe charge transport in amorphous and microcrystalline semiconductors and in conjugated and molecularly doped polymers. Electrical conduction in such systems is achieved through incoherent transitions of charge carriers between spatially localized states. Basic theoretical ideas developed to describe this type of electrical conduction are considered in detail. Particular attention is given to the way the kinetic coefficients depend on temperature, the concentration of localized states, the strength of the applied electric field, and the charge carrier localization length. Charge transport via delocalized states in disordered systems and the relationships between kinetic coefficients under the nonequilibrium conditions are also briefly reviewed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are indebted to numerous colleagues for stimulating and enlightening discussions. Among those are Boris Shklovski (University of Minnesota), Alexei Efros and Michael Raikh (Utah University), Hellmut Fritzsche (Chicago University), Peter Thomas, Walther Fuhs and Heinz Bässler (Philipps-University Marburg), Igor Zvyagin (Moscow State University) and many other colleagues. Financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Sergei Baranovskii

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Baranovskii, S., Rubel, O. (2017). Charge Transport in Disordered Materials. In: Kasap, S., Capper, P. (eds) Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_9

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