Growth and alignment of thin film organic single crystals from dewetting patterns

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5506-5513

  Tisserant, Jean Nicolas ^a,b   Wicht, Gaëtan ^a   Göbel, Ole F ^c   Bocek, Eva ^a   Bona, Gian Luca ^a,b,d   Geiger, Thomas ^a   Hany, Roland ^a   Mezzenga, Raffaele ^b   Partel, Stefan ^e   Schmid, Peter ^a   Schweizer, Wolfhard Bernd ^b   Heier, Jakob ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e VORARLBERG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

cyanine dye; dewetting; organic single crystal; patterning; thin film

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALLY PATTERNED SUBSTRATES; CYANINE DYES; DE-WETTING; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ORGANIC SINGLE CRYSTALS; PATTERNING; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE THIN FILMS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

ALIGNMENT; FILM GROWTH; THIN FILMS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 84879675862     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401679s     Document Type: Article

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