Photoconductivity of self-assembled hexabenzocoronene nanotube: Insight into the charge carrier mobilities on local and long-range scales

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 2549-2554

  Saeki, Akinori ^a,b   Yamamoto, Yohei ^c   Koizumi, Yoshiko ^a,d   Fukushima, Takanori ^d,e   Aida, Takuzo ^d,f   Seki, Shu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILICS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; HEXA-PERI-BENZOCORONENE; HEXABENZOCORONENE; KINETIC STUDY; SECOND-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; TIME-RESOLVED MICROWAVE CONDUCTIVITIES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; TRANSIENT SIGNAL;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NANOTUBES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTOLYSIS;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 80054947037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201223e     Document Type: Article

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