A synergistic assembly of nanoscale lamellar photoconductor hybrids

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 68-75

  Sofos, Marina ^a   Goldberger, Joshua ^b   Stone, David A ^b   Allen, Jonathan E ^a   Ma, Qing ^b   Herman, David J ^a   Tsai, Wei Wen ^b   Lauhon, Lincoln J ^a   Stupp, Samuel I ^a,b,c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ELECTRODES; MOLECULES; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; ZINC OXIDE;

CONJUGATED MOLECULES; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; HIGH EFFICIENCY DEVICES; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; INORGANIC COMPONENTS; ORGANIC/INORGANIC HYBRIDS; PERIODIC NANOSTRUCTURE; SELECTIVE EXCITATIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 57949102797     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2336     Document Type: Article

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