Nanostructuring discotic molecules on ITO support

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Hesse, H C ^a   Lembke, D ^a   Dossel L ^b   Feng, X ^b   Mullen K ^b   Schmidt Mende, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODIZED ALUMINA; BARRIER LAYERS; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CONDUCTIVE GLASS; DISCOTIC MOLECULES; DISCOTICS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERFACES; FILM FABRICATION; HARD TEMPLATES; HEXA-PERI-HEXABENZOCORONENES; IMPRINTING TECHNIQUE; IN-SITU; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANO-STRUCTURING; NANOMETER LENGTH SCALE; NANOMORPHOLOGIES; PATTERN TRANSFERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PROCESSABLE; SMALL MOLECULES; SOLAR APPLICATIONS;

NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

FABRICATION;

EID: 79251545491     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/5/055303     Document Type: Article

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