Liquid-crystalline semiconducting polymers with high charge-carrier mobility

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 328-333

  McCulloch, Iain ^a   Heeney, Martin ^a   Bailey, Clare ^a   Genevicius, Kristijonas ^a   MacDonald, Iain ^a   Shkunov, Maxim ^a   Sparrowe, David ^a   Tierney, Steve ^a   Wagner, Robert ^a   Zhang, Weimin ^a   Chabinyc, Michael L ^b   Kline, R Joseph ^c   McGehee, Michael D ^c   Toney, Michael F ^d  

^a Merck Chemicals   (United Kingdom)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NITROGEN; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSISTORS;

ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATIVE PROCESSES; SINGLE-CRYSTAL POLYMER TRANSISTORS;

SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 33645648893     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1612     Document Type: Article

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