Hopping mobility of charge carriers in polymers in the earliest stages after their generation

It has been found that both the photo- and the radiation conductivity of a number of polymers (primarily polyvinylcarbazole, polystyrene, and polyethylene terephthalate) are of a molecular nature, and movement of the generated charge carriers is by a hopping and not by a band mechanism. Analytical expressions for the instantaneous effective mobility and effective displacement of charge carriers in a unitary electric field were obtained in the approximation of isolated pairs of nearest neighbors for four species (monoenergetic, exponential, Gaussian, and bilevel) of energy application of hopping sites randomly distributed in space. Problems of the application of these expressions to real polymers are discussed on the example of polyvinylcarbazole