Direct evaluation of anisotropic carrier mobility in uniaxially aligned polymer semiconductor film by time-resolved microscopic optical second-harmonic generation measurement

Abstract

Mobility anisotropy in uniaxially-aligned fluorene co-polymer thin film was directly observed by using time-resolved microscopic optical second-harmonic generation (TRM-SHG) imaging. Main-chain orientation of fluorene co-polymer was determined by polarized absorption measurement, and the mobilities in the direction parallel and perpendicular to the main-chain were respectively estimated as cm2 Vs−1 and cm2 Vs−1 from the visualized carrier motion starting from a round-shape electrode. These results indicate that the mobility anisotropy of this sample was 4.0. Activation energy for each direction was also evaluated by the temperature dependence measurement as 117 and 94 meV, respectively. The TRM-SHG method enables us to estimate mobility and activation energy of the oriented polymer film in all directions at once.