Conjugated organosilicon materials for organic electronics and photonics

Advances in Polymer Science

Volumn 235, Issue , 2011, Pages 33-110

  Ponomarenko, Sergei A ^a   Kirchmeyer, Stephan ^b  

^a ENIKOLOPOV INSTITUTE OF SYNTHETIC POLYMER MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

^b HC Starck Clevios GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthradithiophene; Dendrimer; diode (OLED); Electroluminescence; Oligothiophene; Organic field effect transistor (OFET); Organic light emitting; Organic solar cells; Pentacene; Photoluminescence; Poly(1 4 phenylene vinylene); Silafluorene; Silole

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875916436     PISSN: 00653195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/12-2009-48     Document Type: Article

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