In this article, we analyze the electric field dependence of the hole mobility in disordered poly (p-phenylene vinylene). The charge carrier mobility is obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. Depending on the field strength three regions can be identified: the percolation region, the correlation region, and the inverted region. Each region is characterized by a different conduction mechanism and thus a different functional dependence of the mobility on the electric field. Earlier studies have highlighted that Poole-Frenkel law, which appears in the correlation region, is based on the type of correlation caused by randomly distributed electric dipoles. This behavior is thus observed in a limited range of field strengths, and by studying a broader range of electric fields, a more fundamental understanding of the transport mechanism is obtained. We identify the electric fields determining the transitions between the different conduction mechanisms in the material and we explain their physical origin. In principle, this allows us to characterize the mobility field dependence for any organic material. Additionally, we study the charge carrier trapping mechanisms due to diagonal and off-diagonal disorder, respectively. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.

We present a study of mobility field and temperature dependence for C60 with Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations. We propose a new scheme to take into account polarization effects in organic materials through atomic induced dipoles on nearby molecules. This leads to an energy correction for the single site energies and to an external reorganization happening after each hopping. The inclusion of polarization allows us to obtain a good agreement with experiments for both mobility field and temperature dependence.

The morphology of organic interfaces plays an important role in charge-transfer (CT) state splitting, and therefore has a significant impact on the efficiency of organic solar cells. In this article, we use our kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method on molecular dynamics-simulated anthracene-C60 interfaces to study the relation between interface morphology and CT state splitting. These KMC simulations were performed at a range of applied electric fields, and with the fields applied at a range of angles to the interface. The results show that depending on the relative orientation of the anthracene and C60 molecules, CT state splitting shows different behavior with respect to both applied field strength and applied field angle. Different orientations may be better suited for different applications. The inclusion of polarization in our model is shown to  increase CT state splitting for both orientations studied.