The role of polymorphism in organic thin films: Oligoacenes investigated from first principles

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ambrosch Draxl, Claudia ^a   Nabok, Dmitrii ^a   Puschnig, Peter ^a   Meisenbichler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRESONANT; BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION; BULK STRUCTURE; COHESIVE ENERGIES; COHESIVE PROPERTY; CRYSTAL SHAPES; DISPERSIVE FORCES; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; EXCHANGE-CORRELATION FUNCTIONALS; EXCITONIC EFFECT; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OPTICAL SPECTRA; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; PENTACENE POLYMORPHS; PENTACENES; POLYMORPHIC PHASIS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SURFACE ENERGIES; THIN FILM PHASE; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NAPHTHALENE; POLYMORPHISM; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 72049117916     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/12/125010     Document Type: Article

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