Hopping Ladder and Power Relaxation Due to Donor-Acceptor Pairs

摘要

Hopping between donor-acceptor pairs leads to peculiar temperature dependence of the conductivity and the photoconductivity under subband gap illumination in the form of non-linear activation energies ladder. The correlated and uncorrelated distributions of pairs are considered and the conditions for the ladder existence are determined. The relaxation of the carrier concentration fluctuations is studied and power type decay is found. The temperature dependence of the exponent is calculated in agreement with the non-exponential decay of the pulse excited luminescence observed by Dean et al. The temperature dependence of the luminescence intensity also shows variable activation energy as found here. The exponent value alpha =1.316 is also in agreement with the data for crystalline and amorphous materials. 25 refs, 3 figs. (Atomindex citation 17:063524)