Broad and narrow bands in the photoluminescence spectrum of solid-state oligothiophenes: Two marks of an intrinsic emission

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Meinardi, F ^a   Cerminara, M ^a   Blumstengel, S ^a,b   Sassella, A ^a   Borghesi, A ^a   Tubino, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOTHIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; QUATERTHIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; ENERGY; FILM; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULE; OPTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SOLID STATE;

EID: 0038692956     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.184205     Document Type: Article

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