A particularly strong organic acceptor for tuning the hole-injection barriers in modern organic devices

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 160, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1456-1462

  Rangger, Gerold M ^a   Hofmann, Oliver T ^a   Bröker, Benjamin ^b   Zojer, Egbert ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Band structure calculation; Interfaces; Organic electronics; Quantum mechanical modeling; Work function modification

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION ENERGIES; AG(1 1 1); BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; END OF THE DAYS; F4-TCNQ; HOLE INJECTION BARRIERS; METAL WORK FUNCTION; METAL-ORGANIC INTERFACE; ORGANIC ACCEPTORS; ORGANIC DEVICES; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL MODELING; TETRACYANOQUINODIMETHANE;

ADSORPTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HOLE TRAPS; MONOLAYERS; SILVER;

ELECTRON DEVICES;

EID: 77953871534     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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