Fast charged carrier mobility of a triphenylene-based polymer film possessing nematic order

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-308

  Inoue, M ^a,b   Monobe, H ^c   Ukon, M ^a,b   Petrov, V F ^c   Watanabe, T ^a   Kumano, A ^a   Shimizu, Y ^c  

^a JSR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Japan Chemical Innovation Institute   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charged carrier mobility; Discotic nematic phase; Electroluminescent device; Liquid crystalline semiconductor; Photopolymerization; Triphenylene

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; HALL MOBILITY; HOLE MOBILITY; ISOMERS; LUMINESCENT DEVICES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS;

CHARGED CARRIER MOBILITY; DISCOTIC NEMATIC PHASE; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTOR; POLYMERIZED FILMS; TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY; TRIPHENYLENES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 31144444785     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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