On practical charge injection at the metal/organic semiconductor interface

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kumatani, Akichika ^a,c   Li, Yun ^a,d   Darmawan, Peter ^a   Minari, Takeo ^a   Tsukagoshi, Kazuhito ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84872719459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01026     Document Type: Article

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