2014/11/11 by Motoi Kimata, Kimata, Motoi, Daisuke Nozaki +8
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Conducting polymers and applications #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics #Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.2740
13 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2014/11/11 · openalex publication_date 2014/11/11 · arxiv updated 2014/11/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We report the systematic studies of spin current transport and relaxation mechanism in highly doped organic polymer film. In this study, we have determined spin diffusion length (SDL), spin lifetime, and spin diffusion constant by using different experimental techniques. The spin lifetime estimated from the electron paramagnetic resonance experiment is much shorter than the previous expectation beyond the experimental ambiguity. This suggests that significantly large spin diffusion constant, which is reasonably explained by the hopping transport mechanism in degenerate semiconductors, exists in highly doped organic semiconductors. The calculated SDL using the spin lifetime and spin diffusion constant estimated from our experiment is comparable to the experimentally obtained SDL of the order of one hundred nanometers. Moreover, the present study revealed that the spin angular momentum is almost preserved in the hopping events. In other words, the spin relaxation mainly occurs due to the spin-orbit coupling at the nanoscale crystalline grains.