From computational discovery to experimental characterization of a high hole mobility organic crystal

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sokolov, Anatoliy N ^a   Atahan Evrenk, Sule ^b   Mondal, Rajib ^a   Akkerman, Hylke B ^a   Sánchez Carrera, Roel S ^b   Granados Focil, Sergio ^c   Schrier, Joshua ^d   Mannsfeld, Stefan C B ^e   Zoombelt, Arjan P ^a   Bao, Zhenan ^a   Aspuru Guzik, Alán ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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CARBON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 80052385807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1451     Document Type: Article

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