Synthesis, structure, and opto-electronic properties of organic-based nanoscale heterojunctions

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rezek, Bohuslav ^a   Čermák, Jan ^a   Kromka, Alexander ^a   Ledinský, Martin ^a   Hubík, Pavel ^a   J Mareš, Jiří ^a   Purkrt, Adam ^a   Cimrová, Věra ^b   Fejfar, Antonín ^a   Kočka, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLENDING; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPOSITE FILMS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYPYRROLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEN-TERMINATED DIAMOND; KELVIN FORCE MICROSCOPY; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SCANNING PROBE TECHNIQUES; TAPPING-MODE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ADJUSTING PARAMETERS; AFM; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; COMPONENT SEGREGATION; COVALENT BONDING; DISSOCIATION ENERGIES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; NANO SCALE; NANOSHAVING; ORGANIC COMPOSITES; ORGANIC LAYERS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SHORT DIFFUSION LENGTHS; SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGES; TRANSFER OF CHARGES;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84255189765     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-238     Document Type: Article

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