Optical characterization of pristine poly(3-hexyl thiophene) films

Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 186-194

  Morfa, Anthony J ^a   Barnes, Teresa M ^a   Ferguson, Andrew J ^a   Levi, Dean H ^a   Rumbles, Garry ^a   Rowlen, Kathy L ^b   Van De Lagemaat, Jao ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b InDevR LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

conducting polymers; conjugated polymers; dielectric properties; flexible electronics; modeling; optics; organic electronics; photophysics; polyaromatics; refractive index; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ANGLE SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; MODEL FIT; MODELING; OPTICAL AXIS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; PHONON ENERGIES; PHOTOPHYSICS; POLYAROMATICS; POLYMER CHAINS; PRISTINE FILMS; REFLECTION DATA; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA; SUBSTRATE PLANES; TRANSMISSION DATA; VIBRONIC PROGRESSIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDIES;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; THIOPHENE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 78650887513     PISSN: 08876266     EISSN: 10990488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/polb.22183     Document Type: Article

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