Positive temperature coefficient of resistivity of polyaniline films in the framework of phonon-assisted tunnelling model

In the present paper it is shown that a change from semiconducting behaviour of conductivity to metallic behaviour observed in polyaniline (PANI) films [Long et al., Physica B 325 (2003) 208; 344 (2004) 82] and fibres [Adams et al., Synth. Met. 101 (1999) 685] at higher temperatures could be explained on the basis of phonon-assisted tunnelling model. A transition from negative temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR) to positive TCR in the framework of this model occurs at the temperatures, at which the phonon emission dominates in the process of tunnelling.