Two-dimensional electronic excitations in self-assembled conjugated polymer nanocrystals

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5454, 2000, Pages 839-842

  Osterbacka R ^a,b   An, C P ^b   Jiang, X M ^b   Vardeny, Z V ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0034603073     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5454.839     Document Type: Article

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43. We thank H. Sirringhaus for sending us a preprint of his work (71) before publication and S. Mazumdar for useful discussions. Supported in part by NSF grant DMR 97-32820 and U.S. Department of Energy grant ER 45490. R.O. acknowledges funding from the Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences in Finland, the Neste Foundation, and the Ehrnrooth Foundation.