Multicomponent semiconducting polymer systems with low crystallization- induced percolation threshold

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 950-956

  Goffri, Shalom ^a   Müller, Christian ^b   Stingelin Stutzmann, Natalie ^b,c   Breiby, Dag W ^d,g   Radano, Christopher P ^e   Andreasen, Jens W ^d   Thompson, Richard ^f   Janssen, René A J ^e   Nielsen, Martin M ^d,g   Smith, Paul ^b   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); THIN FILMS;

AMORPHOUS INSULATING POLYMERS; COMMODITY POLYMERS; PHASE SEGREGATION; SEMICRYSTALLINE REGIOREGULAR;

SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 33751581205     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1779     Document Type: Article

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