Optical and electronic properties of functionalized pentacene and anthradithiophene derivatives

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7413, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ostroverkhova, Oksana ^a   Platt, Andrew D ^a   Shepherd, Whitney E B ^a   Day, Jonathan ^a   Anthony, John E ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Organic semiconductors; Photoconductivity; Single molecule spectroscopy; Space charge limited current

Indexed keywords

APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; CONTINUOUS WAVES; EFFECTIVE CHARGE; FAST CHARGES; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; FUNCTIONALIZED; LIGHT INTENSITY; MATRIX; METAL-ORGANIC INTERFACE; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; PENTACENES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE GAINS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES; POWER LAW DECAY; PROCESSABLE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; SPACE-CHARGE-LIMITED CURRENT; TOLUENE SOLUTION; TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENTS; WIDE-FIELD;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CARRIER TRANSPORT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIGHT; MOLECULES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; THIN FILMS; TOLUENE;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 70449379578     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.829206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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