Modelling the effects of mesostructure on electronic applications of polymer thin layers

Our results show that polymer microstructures resulting from different arrangements of polymer molecules have significant effects on the competition between charge trapping, current transport and recombination within the polymer layer. It was found that current efficiency increases non-linearly with the external applied electric field, the effect being more pronounced for molecular orientations parallel to the electrode surface. In contrast, recombination efficiency shows an opposite behaviour since no significant charge accumulation within the polymer layer is predicted. However, the space-charge effects due to electrons and holes are responsible for most of the recombination events not occurring in neither long or short chains.