Stability of organic nanowires

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8094, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Balzer, Frank ^a   Schiek, Manuela ^a   Wallmann, Ivonne ^b   Schäfer, Andreas ^b   Lützen, Arne ^b   Rubahn, Horst Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annealing; Atomic force microscopy; Nanofibers; Naphthyl end capped thiophenes; Organic nanowires; Ostwald ripening

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ATOMIC FORCE; FORMATION PROCESS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL STABILITY; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; NUMBER DENSITY; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC MOLECULAR BEAM DEPOSITION; ORGANIC NANOWIRES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; NANOFIBERS; NANOPHOTONICS; NAPHTHALENE; OSTWALD RIPENING; THIOPHENE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80053496838     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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