Polaron hopping mediated by nuclear tunnelling in semiconducting polymers at high carrier density

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Asadi, Kamal ^a   Kronemeijer, Auke J ^b   Cramer, Tobias ^c   Jan Anton Koster, L ^d   Blom, Paul W M ^d,e   De Leeuw, Dago M ^d,e  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OSCILLATION; POLYMER; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; OSCILLATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE CHARGE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84877780876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2708     Document Type: Article

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