Nanostructured organic semiconductors via directed supramolecular assembly

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2721-2729

  Rancatore, Benjamin J ^a,b,c   Mauldin, Clayton E ^a   Tung, Shih Huang ^b   Wang, Cheng ^d   Hexemer, Alexander ^d   Strzalka, Joseph ^e   Fréchet, Jean M J ^a,c   Xu, Ting ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^c Materials Sciences Division   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge mobility; Organic semiconductor; Supramolecular assembly; Thin film

Indexed keywords

CHARGE MOBILITIES; DE-WETTING; FIELD-EFFECT MOBILITIES; IN-FIELD; MICRO-DOMAINS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NONCOVALENT; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS; ORGANIC SMALL MOLECULE; P TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR; POLY(4-VINYL PYRIDINE); QUATERTHIOPHENE; SIDE CHAINS; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY; SUPRAMOLECULES;

AZOBENZENE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; HYDROGEN BONDS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PHENOMENA; THIN FILMS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 77952943077     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100521f     Document Type: Article

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