Measurement of molecular motion in organic semiconductors by thermal diffuse electron scattering

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1045-1049

  Eggeman, Alexander S ^a   Illig, Steffen ^b   Troisi, Alessandro ^c   Sirringhaus, Henning ^b   Midgley, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSE SCATTERING; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; EXPERIMENTAL PROBES; INTERMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL MODES; LATTICE VIBRATIONAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CALCULATION; MOLECULAR MOTIONS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84886302888     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3710     Document Type: Article

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