Structural and electronic properties of the first monolayers of spin-cast poly(fluorene)-based conjugated-polymer films

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1093-1105

  Plank, Harald ^a,b   Güntner, Roland ^c   Scherf, Ullrich ^c   List, Emil J W ^a,b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

BATHOCHROMIC PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; BULK POLYMERS; DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; NONPOLAR SURFACES;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 34248646571     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200500905     Document Type: Article

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