Anisotropy of the charge-carrier mobility in polydiacetylene crystals

The anisotropic mobility of excess charge carriers in pure and mixed crystals of two polydiacetylene derivatives was determined;The charge carriers were produced by pulsed irradiation and.detected by time-resolved measurement of the microwave conductivity. The charge-carrier mobility was measured as a function of the orientation of the polymer backbone in the crystal with respect to the probing electric microwave field. A lower limit:in the intrinsic anisotropy;in the charge-carrier mobility was found to be 15 in favor of charge transport in the direction of the polymer backbone as compared to the transverse direction for polydiacetylene-(bis p-fluorobenzene Sulfonate) (pFBS), while value of 90 was found for polydiacetylene-(bis p-toluene sulfonate) (pTS) and the 50:50 pTS/FBS copolymer, A lower limit of the change-carrier mobility along the backbone of 3 cm(2)/V s was found for both pTS and pFBS. The charge-carrier mobility in the copolymer; was found;to be one older of magnitude lower than in the pure polymers. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.