Templating highly crystalline organic semiconductors using atomic membranes of graphene at the Anode/organic interface

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 873-878

  Singha Roy, Susmit ^a   Bindl, Dominick J ^a   Arnold, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE; CRYSTAL SIZE; CRYSTALLINE ORDERING; ENERGY TRANSPORT; EVAPORATED FILMS; MOLECULAR TEMPLATE; NANO-STRUCTURED; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; STANDING-UP; TEMPLATED; TEMPLATING;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MONOLAYERS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84859562186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201559g     Document Type: Article

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