Magnetoconductance Response in Unipolar and Bipolar Organic Diodes at Ultrasmall Fields

T. D. Nguyen, B. R. Gautam, E. Ehrenfreund, and Z. V. Vardeny
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166804 – Published 14 October 2010

Abstract

We measured magnetoconductance (MC) response in a number of unipolar and bipolar organic diodes based on π-conjugated polymers and small molecules at fields |B|<100mT and various bias voltages and temperatures. Similar to magneto-electroluminescence, the MC(B) response in bipolar diodes shows a sign reversal at ultrasmall |B|<12mT due to interplay of hyperfine and Zeeman interactions in opposite-charge polaron pairs. Surprisingly, similar MC(B) response was also measured in unipolar devices, indicating the existence of like-charge polaron pairs, however, with a clear difference between the hyperfine interaction constants of electron polaron and hole polaron.

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  • Received 21 March 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.166804

© 2010 The American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

T. D. Nguyen1, B. R. Gautam1, E. Ehrenfreund1,2, and Z. V. Vardeny1,*

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, 115 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
  • 2Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

  • *val@physics.utah.edu

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Vol. 105, Iss. 16 — 15 October 2010

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