Controlling the orientation of terraced nanoscale "ribbons" of a poly(thiophene) semiconductor

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 780-787

  Delongchamp, Dean M ^a   Kline, R Joseph ^a   Jung, Youngsuk ^a   Germack, David S ^a   Lin, Eric K ^a   Moad, Andrew J ^a   Richter, Lee J ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b   Heeney, Martin ^c   Mcculloch, Iain ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystal; Nanoribbon; Organic semiconductor; Orientation; Polythiophene

Indexed keywords

COATING PROCESS; CRYSTAL SHAPES; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; EXTERNAL FIELDS; FILM STRUCTURE; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; NANO SCALE; NANORIBBON; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILMS; ORIENTATION; POLYTHIOPHENE;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SOIL CONSERVATION; THIN FILMS; THIOPHENE;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 67049168860     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800574f     Document Type: Article

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