Distinguishing spin relaxation mechanisms in organic semiconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Harmon, N J ^a   Flatte M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISORDERED SYSTEM; HOPPING CARRIERS; MULTIPLE TRAPS; POSITIONAL DISORDER; SPIN DIFFUSIONS; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN RELAXATION; WAITING TIME;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

PHYSICS;

EID: 84876724203     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.176602     Document Type: Article

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