AN ELECTRICAL MODEL FOR 2-DIMENSIONAL LAYERS OF CONDUCTIVE POLYMERS

Conducting polymers are a topic of great interest in the field of mole cular electronics as well as for sensor applications. In this paper, w e present a model for the evaluation of the d.c. conductance of a laye r of conductive polymers, whose thickness is negligible if compared wi th the lateral extension. In our model all the monomers constituting a chain are represented by resistors with a fixed value of conductance and are disposed in a square network. The nodes of the network are str uctured in such a way that each monomer converging to the node under c onsideration can be connected to all the other three through resistors of different value:, whose alternated occurrence is ruled by a probab ilistic law. The global conductance of such a network is studied while the values of the probabilities referred to the above-said occurrence s are varied. Finally, the treatment of this network according to the traditional theory of random networks is considered.