Analysis of ion diffusion and charging in electronically conducting polydicarbazole films by impedance methods

Germà Garcia-Belmonte, Zvika Pomerantz, Juan Bisquert, Jean Paul Lellouche, Arie Zaban

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Abstract

An electrochemical impedance analysis of the doping kinetics of polydicarbazole films is reported. Polymer films of varying thickness were analyzed using an impedance model that considers spatially-restricted diffusion of ionic species. The main bulk parameters for diffusion and charge accumulation during doping were determined from fits. These parameters resulted independent of film thickness after considering the experimental error. The equilibrium (bulk) capacitance C0 varies in the range of 100-800Fcm-3. The chemical diffusion coefficient D varies within the range of 10 -10 to 10-8cm2s-1 and increases as the steady-state potential reaches the oxidation peak potential.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3413-3417
Number of pages5
JournalElectrochimica Acta
Volume49
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Aug 2004

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Support of Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a (Spain) under project BFM2001-3640 is acknowledged. AZ thanks the Israel Ministry of Infrastructures for support of this research. JPL thanks the support of the Vth Framework European Growth project CHEMAG no. GRD2-2000-30122.

Funding

Support of Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a (Spain) under project BFM2001-3640 is acknowledged. AZ thanks the Israel Ministry of Infrastructures for support of this research. JPL thanks the support of the Vth Framework European Growth project CHEMAG no. GRD2-2000-30122.

FundersFunder number
Israel Ministry of Infrastructures
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a (Spain)BFM2001-3640
Vth Framework European GrowthGRD2-2000-30122

    Keywords

    • Charging
    • Doping kinetics
    • Ionic diffusion
    • Polydicarbazole

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