We developed an analytical model to describe hopping transport in organic semiconductors including both
energetic disorder and polaronic contributions due to geometric relaxation. The model is based on a Marcus
jump rate in terms of the small-polaron concept with a Gaussian energetic disorder, and it is premised upon
a generalized effective medium approach yet avoids shortcomings involved in the effective transport energy
or percolation concepts. It is superior to our previous treatment [Phys. Rev. B 76, 045210 (2007)] since it is
applicable at arbitrary polaron activation energy Ea with respect to the energy disorder parameter σ. It can be
adapted to describe both charge-carrier mobility and triplet exciton diffusion. The model is compared with results
fromMonte Carlo simulations.We show (i) that the activation energy of the thermally activated hopping transport
can be decoupled into disorder and polaron contributions whose relative weight depend nonlinearly on the σ/Ea
ratio, and (ii) that the choice of the density of occupied and empty states considered in configurational averaging
has a profound effect on the results of calculations of theMarcus hopping transport. The σ/Ea ratio governs also
the carrier-concentration dependence of the charge-carrier mobility in the large-carrier-concentration transport
regime as realized in organic field-effect transistors. The carrier-concentration dependence becomes considerably
weaker when the polaron energy increases relative to the disorder energy, indicating the absence of universality.
This model bridges a gap between disorder and polaron hopping concepts.
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