Electronic properties of polymer crystals: The effect of interchain interactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Ferretti, Andrea ^a   Ruini, Alice ^a   Molinari, Elisa ^a   Caldas, Marilia J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VINYL RESINS;

CHARGE TRANSPORT; CRYSTALLINE AGGREGATION; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY; INTERCHAIN INTERACTION EFFECT; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION; POLY-PARA-PHENYLENEVINYLENE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037471060     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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