Competing effects of fluorination on the orientation of aromatic and aliphatic phosphonic acid monolayers on indium tin oxide

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 15139-15147

  Gliboff, Matthew ^a   Li, Hong ^b   Knesting, Kristina M ^a   Giordano, Anthony J ^b   Nordlund, Dennis ^c   Seidler, Gerald T ^a   Brédas, Jean Luc ^b   Marder, Seth R ^b   Ginger, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINATED DERIVATIVES; INTER-MOLECULAR FORCES; MOLECULAR PACKINGS; NEAR-EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPIES; PHENYLPHOSPHONIC ACIDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES; UPRIGHT ORIENTATIONS;

BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; FLUORINATION; FLUORINE; HALOGENATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIN; WORK FUNCTION;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

EID: 84880783168     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp404033e     Document Type: Article

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