Doping molecular wires

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2559-2564

  Heimel, Georg ^a,b   Zojer, Egbert ^c   Romaner, Lorenz ^d   Brédas, Jean Luc ^e   Stellacci, Francesco ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPED POLYMERS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL ELECTRODES; MODEL SYSTEM; MOLECULAR COMPONENTS; MOLECULAR WIRES; MONOMOLECULAR WIRES; NANOSCALE DEVICE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; WIRE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CHLORIDE; ION; NANOWIRE; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; MATERIALS TESTING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHLORIDES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; IONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOWIRES; SODIUM;

EID: 67650346165     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9006613     Document Type: Article

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