Scanning tunneling spectroscopy on organic semiconductors: Experiment and model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Kemerink, M ^a   Alvarado, S F ^b   Muller P ^b   Koenraad, P M ^a   Salemink, H W M ^a   Wolter, J H ^a   Janssen, R A J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; FILM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 37649029996     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.045202     Document Type: Article

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