Single-crystal organic charge-transfer interfaces probed using Schottky-gated heterostructures

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 788-794

  Lezama, Ignacio Gutiérrez ^a   Nakano, Masaki ^b   Minder, Nikolas A ^a   Chen, Zhihua ^c,d   Di Girolamo, Flavia V ^a,e   Facchetti, Antonio ^c,d   Morpurgo, Alberto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c POLYERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; CONJUGATED MOLECULES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INTERFACIAL CHARGE; INTERFACIAL TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC HETEROSTRUCTURES; TRANSFER INTERFACE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84866378694     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3383     Document Type: Article

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