Charge transport in organic semiconductors: From incoherent to coherent

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 2669-2676

  Yao, Yao ^a   Si, Wei ^a   Yang, WenChao ^a   Wu, Chang Qin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

charge transport; decoherence; organic semiconductors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881617273     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5931-y     Document Type: Review

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