Photoconductivity of a low-bandgap conjugated polymer

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 632-636

  Soci, Cesare ^a   Hwang, In Wook ^a   Moses, Daniel ^a   Zhu, Zhengguo ^b   Waller, David ^b   Gaudiana, Russel ^b   Brabec, Christoph J ^c   Heeger, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KONARKA TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^c Konarka Austria Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY GAP; ESTERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

PHOTORESPONSIVITIES; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TRANSIENT PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 33947260470     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200600199     Document Type: Article

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