A photoconductive, thiophene-fullerene double-cable polymer, nanorod device

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 478-481

  Imahori, Hiroshi ^a,b   Kitaura, Shinji ^b   Kira, Aiko ^b   Hayashi, Hironobu ^b   Nishi, Masayuki ^b   Hirao, Kazuyuki ^b   Isoda, Seiji ^a   Tsujimoto, Masahiko ^a   Takano, Mikio ^a   Zhe, Zhang ^b   Miyato, Yuji ^b   Noda, Kei ^b   Matsushige, Kazumi ^b   Stranius, Kati ^c   Tkachenko, Nikolai V ^c   Lemmetyinen, Helge ^c   Qin, Lidong ^d   Hurst, Sarah J ^e   Mirkin, Chad A ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d Northwestern University ^*  (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; NANO SCALE; NANO-INTERFACE; NANOROD DEVICES; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION; RATIONAL DESIGN; TEMPLATE-BASED METHOD;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; THIOPHENE;

NANORODS;

EID: 84857551226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300015e     Document Type: Article

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