Effect of group-14 and group-16 substitution on the photophysics of structurally related donor-acceptor polymers

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 16606-16615

  Gibson, Gregory L ^a   McCormick, Theresa M ^a   Seferos, Dwight S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ,1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; ABSORPTION AND EMISSIONS; CHARGE-TRANSFER EXCITED STATE; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; DONOR-ACCEPTOR POLYMERS; LONG-WAVELENGTH ABSORPTION; PARENT STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA;

ATOMS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTS; GERMANIUM; SILICON;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84882319766     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp405257r     Document Type: Article

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