Oxygen incorporation in rubrene single crystals

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mastrogiovanni, Daniel D T ^a   Mayer, Jeff ^b   Wan, Alan S ^b   Vishnyakov, Aleksey ^c   Neimark, Alexander V ^c   Podzorov, Vitaly ^a   Feldman, Leonard C ^a   Garfunkel, Eric ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVANS ANALYTICAL GROUP   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

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EID: 84899856992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04753     Document Type: Article

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