Charge transport in organic semiconductors

Topics in Current Chemistry

Volumn 312, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-65

  Bässler, Heinz ^a   Köhler, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge carrier mobility; Charge transport; Gaussian disorder model; Molecular model; Organic optoelectronics; Organic semiconductors; SSH model

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; ELECTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84856151126     PISSN: 03401022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_218     Document Type: Article

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