Extracting nondispersive charge carrier mobilities of organic semiconductors from simulations of small systems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Lukyanov, Alexander ^a   Andrienko, Denis ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 78649734101     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.193202     Document Type: Article

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