Effects of silole content and doping on the electronic structures and excitation energies of silole/thiophene cooligomers

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2130-2140

  Zhang, Gulling ^a,b   Ma, Jing ^a   Jiang, Yuansheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GROUND STATE; POLARONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CHARGED OLIGOMERS;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 0037465852     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma021694u     Document Type: Article

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