Color tuning of nanofibers by periodic organic-organic hetero-epitaxy

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4629-4638

  Simbrunner, Clemens ^a   Hernandez Sosa, Gerardo ^a   Quochi, Francesco ^b   Schwabegger, Günther ^a   Botta, Chiara ^c   Oehzelt, Martin ^d   Salzmann, Ingo ^e   Djuric, Tatjana ^f   Neuhold, Alfred ^f   Resel, Roland ^f   Saba, Michele ^b   Mura, Andrea ^b   Bongiovanni, Giovanni ^b   Vollmer, Antje ^d   Koch, Norbert ^e   Sitter, Helmut ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

organic organic heteroepitaxy; para hexaphenyl; sexi thiophene

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; COLOR TUNING; CRITICAL VALUE; FLUORESCENT COLORS; HOST-GUESTS; MULTILAYER HETEROSTRUCTURES; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; NANOTEMPLATES; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; ORGANIC MULTILAYERS; PARA-HEXAPHENYL; PHOTO-LUMINESCENCE EXCITATION; PL EMISSION; PL SPECTRA; POLARIZED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; SEPARATED LAYER; SEXI-THIOPHENE; SPACER THICKNESS; SPECTRAL CONTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL EMISSION; SPECTRAL RANGE; TEMPLATE MOLECULES; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; XRD MEASUREMENTS;

CRYSTALLITES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYERS; MULTILAYERS; NANOFIBERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; THIOPHENE;

MOLECULES;

NANOPARTICLE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLOR; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84862864623     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2047235     Document Type: Article

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