Fluorene-based macromolecular nanostructures and nanomaterials for organic (opto)electronics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 2000, 2013, Pages

  Xie, Ling Hai ^a   Yang, Su Hui ^a   Lin, Jin Yi ^a   Yi, Ming Dong ^a   Huang, Wei ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Electronics; Nanostructures; Organic semiconductors; Thin film devices

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; PLASTIC ELECTRONICS; POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; POLYMER SEMICONDUCTORS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

NANOELECTRONICS;

EID: 84884868117     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0337     Document Type: Review

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