A semiconducting organic radical cationic host-guest complex

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9964-9971

  Fahrenbach, Albert C ^a,b   Sampath, Srinivasan ^a,b   Late, Dattatray J ^c   Barnes, Jonathan C ^a,b   Kleinman, Samuel L ^a   Valley, Nicholas ^a   Hartlieb, Karel J ^a   Liu, Zhichang ^a   Dravid, Vinayak P ^c   Schatz, George C ^a   Van Duyne, Richard P ^a   Stoddart, J Fraser ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

electrochemistry; molecular electronics; organic field effect transistors; quantum mechanics; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIPYRIDINIUM; BOND ORDERS; CRYSTALLINE NEEDLES; CYCLOBIS(PARAQUAT-P-PHENYLENE); DIRADICALS; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; FREE COMPONENT; HOST GUEST COMPLEXES; HOST-GUEST COMPLEXATIONS; METHYL VIOLOGEN; MOLECULAR WIRES; NAKED-EYE; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC RADICALS; P-TYPE; RADICAL CATIONS; RECOGNITION PROCESS; REDOX STATE; RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SEMI-CONDUCTING PROPERTY; SEMICONDUCTIVITY; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; VIBRATIONAL MODES; X RAY STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LITHOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; POSITIVE IONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

CATION; FREE RADICAL; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FREE RADICALS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84870474546     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303553z     Document Type: Article

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