Mapping of domain orientation and molecular order in polycrystalline semiconducting polymer films with soft X-ray microscopy

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1122-1131

  Watts, Benjamin ^b   Schuettfort, Torben ^a   McNeill, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

NEXAFS; organic field effect transistors; polycrystallinity; semiconducting polymers; x ray microscopy

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DISORDERED DOMAINS; DOMAIN ORIENTATION; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD VECTORS; FILM STRUCTURE; IN-PLANE; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LOCAL AVERAGE; MOLECULAR ORDERS; NARROW DISTRIBUTION; NEXAFS; ORDERED DOMAINS; OUT-OF-PLANE COMPONENTS; PHENYL RINGS; PLANE ORIENTATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE; POLYCRYSTALLINE FILM; POLYCRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; POLYCRYSTALLINITY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY ELECTRON DETECTION; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; SOFT X-RAY MICROSCOPY; SURFACE DOMAINS; TILT ANGLE; TRANSITION DIPOLE MOMENTS; X RAY BEAM; X-RAY MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; X RAY MICROSCOPES; X RAYS;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 79952858254     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201001918     Document Type: Article

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