Influence of copolymer interface orientation on the optical emission of polymeric semiconductor heterojunctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Sreearunothai, P ^a   Morteani, A C ^a   Avilov, I ^b   Cornil, J ^b   Beljonne, D ^b   Friend, R H ^a   Phillips, R T ^a   Silva, C ^a   Herz, L M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTION; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE GENERATION; POLYMER ORIENTATION; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL MODELING; REPULSIVE BARRIER;

BAND STRUCTURE; CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYMER BLENDS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 33645167361     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.117403     Document Type: Article

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