Enhanced thermoelectric power factor of tensile drawn poly(3-hexylthiophene)

The thermoelectric power factor of a broad range of organic semiconductors scales with their electrical conductivity according to a widely obeyed power law, and therefore, strategies that permit this empirical trend to be surpassed are highly sought after. Here, tensile drawing of the conjugated pol...

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Hauptverfasser: Hynynen, Jonna (VerfasserIn) , Järsvall, Emmy (VerfasserIn) , Kroon, Renee (VerfasserIn) , Zhang, Yadong (VerfasserIn) , Barlow, Stephen (VerfasserIn) , Marder, Seth R. (VerfasserIn) , Kemerink, Martijn (VerfasserIn) , Lund, Anja (VerfasserIn) , Müller, Christian (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2019
In: ACS Macro Letters
Year: 2018, Jahrgang: 8, Heft: 1, Pages: 70-76
ISSN:2161-1653
DOI:10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00820
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00820
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Verfasserangaben:Jonna Hynynen, Emmy Järsvall, Renee Kroon, Yadong Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Martijn Kemerink, Anja Lund, and Christian Müller
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Zusammenfassung:The thermoelectric power factor of a broad range of organic semiconductors scales with their electrical conductivity according to a widely obeyed power law, and therefore, strategies that permit this empirical trend to be surpassed are highly sought after. Here, tensile drawing of the conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) is employed to create free-standing films with a high degree of uniaxial alignment. Along the direction of orientation, sequential doping with a molybdenum tris(dithiolene) complex leads to a 5-fold enhancement of the power factor beyond the predicted value, reaching up to 16 μW m-1 K-2 for a conductivity of about 13 S cm-1. Neither stretching nor doping affect the glass transition temperature of P3HT, giving rise to robust free-standing materials that are of interest for the design of flexible thermoelectric devices.
Beschreibung:Published online 2018 Dec 26
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ISSN:2161-1653
DOI:10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00820