Abstract
Doped polyacetylene forms a new class of conducting polymers in which the electrical conductivity can be systematically and continuously varied over a range of eleven orders of magnitude. Transport studies and far-infrared transmission measurements imply a metal-to-insulator transition at dopant concentrations near 1%.
- Received 23 June 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1098
©1977 American Physical Society
Erratum
Electrical Conductivity in Doped Polyacetylene.
C. K. Chiang, C. R. Fincher, Jr., Y. W. Park, A. J. Heeger, H. Shirakawa, E. J. Louis, S. C. Gau, and Alan G. MacDiarmid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 1472 (1978)
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