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The electrical and optical properties of polymer-silicon composites with particles incorporated by different means have been studied. It is shown that both when silicon particles are embedded in a carbazole-containing polymer matrix and in the case of a pure polymer, the I–V characteristics are nonlinear and asymmetric (the I–V characteristics of the carbazole-containing polyorganosiloxane, which has silicon atoms in the monomer link, behave in a more symmetric pattern). In all cases, the I-V characteristics can be fitted with power laws, I(V) ∼ V p, with three different slopes for different voltage intervals, which remainds one of the pattern typical of the mechanism of space-charge-limited currents. It is shown that, in its luminescent properties, the carbazole-containing polyorganosiloxane is similar to a carbazole-containing polymer matrix with embedded silicon particles. The results obtained argue for charge transfer between the polymer and silicon nanoparticles if they are embedded in the matrix and for an formation of an interchain charge-transfer complex in the case of chemically bound silicon.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Aleshin, E.L. Alexandrova, I.P. Shcherbakov, 2008, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2008, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 931–935.
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Aleshin, A.N., Alexandrova, E.L. & Shcherbakov, I.P. Electrical and optical properties of composites based on carbazole derivatives and silicon particles. Phys. Solid State 50, 972–976 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783408050284
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