Abstract
A dielectric relaxation mechanism, which is attributed to the localized motion of trapped polarons, has been recorded in conducting polyaniline by employing the thermally stimulated depolarization current technique. The signal was analyzed within the frame of the normal distribution in the activation energy value. The experimental dielectric relaxation results were manipulated in order to evaluate the length of the jump distance that the trapped polarons transfer along and the concentration of trap centers. The concentration of trapped carriers is calculated from two different viewpoints: the pair approximation that assumes phonon-assisted tunneling through the barrier separating two adjacent sites and the pinning model that considers the trapped polaron oscillating around its pinning point. Both models provide compatible results.
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