AbstractTime resolved transport studies which have now been carried out on representative alkyl and aryl substituted Si and Ge backbone polymers demonstrate that these unipolar systems to transmit holes through the specimen bulk with negligible loss of carriers to deep traps, making these materials attractive candidates for electronic device applications. Transport has been studied by measuring drift mobilities as a function of field, temperature and composition, using the small signal time‐of‐flight technique. Transport occurs among chain backbone derived states, yet exhibits behavior essentially identical to systems in which transiting carriers are known to undergo thermally activated tunneling transitions among discrete molecular sites. Thus it is suggested that disorder causes the chain backbone to be suborganized into domain like units of varying conjugation length. The sensitivity of transport to large scale thermodynamic processes, to side group substituent and to the effect of specific dopants is demonstra
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