Activated hopping transport in anisotropic systems at low temperatures
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Numerical calculations of anisotropic hopping transport based on the resistor network model are presented. Conductivity is shown to follow the stretched exponential dependence on temperature with exponents increasing from 14 to 1 as the wave functions become anisotropic and their localization length in the direction of charge transport decreases. For sufficiently strong anisotropy, this results in nearest-neighbor hopping at low temperatures due to the formation of a single conduction path, which adjusts in the planes where the wave functions overlap strongly. In the perpendicular direction, charge transport follows variable-range hopping, a behavior that agrees with experimental data on organic semiconductors.
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