What determines the mobility of charge carriers in conjugated polymers?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1855, 2007, Pages 1473-1487

  Laquai, Frédéric ^a   Wegner, Gerhard ^a   Bässler, Heinz ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Hopping transport; Time resolved photoconductivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249098023     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2027     Document Type: Article

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