Dielectrophoretic self-assembly of polarized light emitting poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) nanofibre arrays

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  O'Riordan, A ^a   Iacopino, D ^a   Lovera, P ^a   Floyd, L ^a   Reynolds, K ^a   Redmond, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1D NANOSTRUCTURES; APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; ASSEMBLY APPROACH; BUILDING BLOCKES; CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DICHROIC RATIOS; DIELECTROPHORETIC; DIELECTROPHORETIC ASSEMBLY; HIGH ORDER PARAMETERS; MANIPULATION METHODS; NANO SCALE; NANOFIBRES; NANOSCALE DEVICE; OPTO-ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC NANOSTRUCTURES; POLARIZED LIGHT; SITE SELECTIVE;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 79751476495     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/10/105602     Document Type: Article

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