Understanding molecular structure dependence of exciton diffusion in conjugated small molecules

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Li, Zi ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a   Woellner, Cristiano F ^b   Lu, Gang ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULES;

CONJUGATED MOLECULES; CONJUGATED SMALL MOLECULES; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLES; DISORDERED MOLECULES; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATIONS; STRUCTURE DEPENDENCE;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84898968426     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871303     Document Type: Article

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