Organic surface-grown nanowires for functional devices

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Kjelstrup Hansen, Jakob ^a   Simbrunner, Clemens ^b   Rubahn, Horst Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

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EID: 84888387539     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/76/12/126502     Document Type: Article

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