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PHYSICAL REVIEW B 67, 045110 2003 Mobility theory of intermediate-bandwidth carriers in organic crystals: Scattering by acoustic and optical phonons L. Giuggioli,1 John D. Andersen,2 and V. M. Kenkre1 1Center for Advanced Studies and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 2Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623 Received 15 August 2002; published 30 January 2003; publisher error corrected 18 March 2003 An intermediate-bandwidth theory of charge-carrier mobility is developed with a focus on finite-band effects and scattering by phonons. Wide-band behavior is recovered as a limit. Two applications of the finite-band theory are discussed: in one a dip is predicted in the temperature dependence of the mobility, and in the other recently reported observations on ultrapure organic crystals are addressed. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.045110 PACS numbers: 72.80.Le, 72.10.d, 72.20. i, 72.20.Fr I. INTRODUCTION AND BASIC EXPRESSIONS N is the total number of atoms/molecules, and the specific B dependence is dictated simply by normalization of ( ). k Charge-carrier transport in inorganic crystals, e.g., metals Considering a cubic lattice with lattice constant a, and ex- such as Cu and semiconductors such as Ge,