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  • Efficiency of Charge-Transf...
    Ferguson, Andrew J; Reid, Obadiah G; Nanayakkara, Sanjini U; Ihly, Rachelle; Blackburn, Jeffrey L

    The journal of physical chemistry letters, 12/2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 23
    Journal Article

    Although molecular charge-transfer doping is widely used to manipulate carrier density in organic semiconductors, only a small fraction of charge carriers typically escape the Coulomb potential of dopant counterions to contribute to electrical conductivity. Here, we utilize microwave and direct-current (DC) measurements of electrical conductivity to demonstrate that a high percentage of charge carriers in redox-doped semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (s-SWCNT) networks is delocalized as a free carrier density in the π-electron system (estimated as >46% at high doping densities). The microwave and four-point probe conductivities of hole-doped s-SWCNT films quantitatively match over almost 4 orders of magnitude in conductance, indicating that both measurements are dominated by the same population of delocalized carriers. We address the relevance of this surprising one-to-one correspondence by discussing the degree to which local environmental parameters (e.g., tube–tube junctions, Coulombic stabilization, and local bonding environment) may impact the relative magnitudes of each transport measurement.