How single conjugated polymer molecules respond to electric fields

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-146

  Schindler, Florian ^a   Lupton, John M ^a   Müller, Josef ^a   Feldmann, Jochen ^a   Scherf, Ullrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXCITONS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; SOLAR CELLS;

EXCITON DISSOCIATIONS; FIELD-INDUCED INTENSITY MODULATIONS; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; STARK EFFECT;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 31744445925     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1549     Document Type: Article

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