Metallic conduction at organic charge-transfer interfaces

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 574-580

  Alves, Helena ^a   Molinari, Anna S ^a   Xie, Hangxing ^a   Morpurgo, Alberto F ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; MOLECULES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

CONDUCTING INTERFACE; CONJUGATED MOLECULES; CONJUGATED ORGANIC MOLECULES; CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION; METALLIC CONDUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 45849101693     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2205     Document Type: Article

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