A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1038-1044

  Noriega, Rodrigo ^a,f   Rivnay, Jonathan ^b,g   Vandewal, Koen ^b   Koch, Felix P V ^c   Stingelin, Natalie ^c,d   Smith, Paul ^c   Toney, Michael F ^e   Salleo, Alberto ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MICROSTRUCTURES; CONFORMATIONAL FREEDOM; ELECTRONIC PROCESS; FUTURE GENERATIONS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; INTERMOLECULAR AGGREGATION; MATERIALS AND PROCESS; ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; POLYMER FILMS;

CARRIER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84886294611     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3722     Document Type: Article

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