Organic semiconductors for the new millennium

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1765, 2000, Pages 173-192

  Cacialli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjugated molecules; Optoelectronics; Organics; Polymers; Semiconductors; electrons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347372810     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0526     Document Type: Article

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