Functional K-doping of eumelanin thin films: Density functional theory theory and soft x-ray spectroscopy experiments in the frame of the macrocyclic protomolecule model

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Borghetti, P ^a   Ghosh, P ^b   Castellarin Cudia, C ^c   Goldoni, A ^c   Floreano, L ^d   Cossaro, A ^d   Verdini, A ^d   Gebauer, R ^e   Drera, G ^a   Sangaletti, L ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^e ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^f DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS; C ATOMS; CHARGE DONATION; EUMELANINS; K-DOPING; MACROCYCLES; MACROCYCLICS; ORBITALS; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RESONANT PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; SOFT X-RAY; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL WEIGHT; TETRAMERS; UNOCCUPIED ELECTRONIC STATE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STATES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTS; KETONES; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHENOLS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84862532321     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4719211     Document Type: Article

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