The impact of interfacial mixing on Förster transfer at conjugated polymer heterojunctions

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-163

  Higgins, Anthony M ^a   Cadby, Ashley ^b   Lidzey, David G ^b   Dalgliesh, Robert M ^c   Geoghegan, Mark ^b   Jones, Richard A L ^b   Martin, Simon J ^b,d   Heriot, Sasha Y ^b,e  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Leeds Innovation Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTORESISTS;

BASED CONJUGATED POLYMERS; BI LAYERS; CAPILLARY WAVES; INTERFACIAL MIXING; INTERFACIAL ROUGHNESSES; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NEUTRON REFLECTIVITIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; POLYFLUORENE; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFERS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; ROUGH INTERFACES; THERMAL PROCESSING;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 58149381817     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200800887     Document Type: Article

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