Structure, morphology, and optical properties of highly ordered films of para-sexiphenyl

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 16538-16549

  Zojer, E ^a   Koch, N ^a   Puschnig, P ^a   Meghdadi, F ^a   Niko, A ^a   Resel, R ^a   Ambrosch Draxl, C ^a   Knupfer, M ^a   Fink, J ^a   Bredas J ^a   Leising, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 0000273881     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.16538     Document Type: Article

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