Role of confinement and aggregation in charge transport in semicrystalline polythiophene thin films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Duong, Duc T ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b   Salleo, Alberto ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84870541790     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.205205     Document Type: Article

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