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Nature Of Charge Carriers In Disordered Molecular Solids: Are Polarons Compatible With Observations?, Paul Ernest Parris, Vasudev M. Kenkre, David H. Dunlap

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Polaronic theories for charge transport in disordered organic solids, particularly molecularly doped polymers, have been plagued by issues of internal consistency related to the magnitude of physical parameters. We present a natural resolution of the problem by showing that, in the presence of correlated disorder, polaronic carriers with binding energies Δ ~ 50 - 500 meV and transfer integrals J ~ 1 - 20 meV are completely consistent with the magnitudes of field and temperature dependent mobilities observed.