Light absorption in organic thin films: The importance of oriented molecules

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 33, 2013, Pages 17285-17293

  Guskova, Olga ^a   Schünemann, Christoph ^a,c   Eichhorn, Klaus Jochen ^a   Walzer, Karsten ^b   Levichkova, Marieta ^b   Grundmann, Steffen ^b   Sommer, Jens Uwe ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b HELIATEK GMBH   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; GRAZING INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SMALL-MOLECULE ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; THEORETICAL APPROACH; THIN FILM MORPHOLOGY; VARIABLE ANGLE SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84883170201     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4048083     Document Type: Article

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