Out-of-plane carrier transport in conjugated polymer thin films: Role of morphology

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 9590-9597

  Yang, Hengxi ^a   Glynos, Emmanouil ^a   Huang, Bingyuan ^a   Green, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE EXTRACTION; CONDUCTIVE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONJUGATED POLYMER THIN FILMS; DC CONDUCTIVITY; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OUT-OF-PLANE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; TIME OF FLIGHT;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; POLYMER FILMS;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84878039680     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp402254r     Document Type: Article

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