Molecular control of photoexcited charge transfer and recombination at a quaterthiophene/zinc oxide interface

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Mou, Weiwei ^a   Ohmura, Satoshi ^a,b   Shimojo, Fuyuki ^a,b   Nakano, Aiichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON-HYDROGEN BOND; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CONJUGATED OLIGOMER; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; DYNAMIC DISORDER; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; MOLECULAR CONTROLS; MOLECULAR DESIGN; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NON-ADIABATIC; OXIDE INTERFACES; QUANTUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUATERTHIOPHENE; STATIC DISORDER; ZNO;

HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERS; ZINC OXIDE;

CHARGE TRANSFER;

EID: 84861816929     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4719206     Document Type: Article

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