Large work function shift of organic semiconductors inducing enhanced interfacial electron transfer in organic optoelectronics enabled by porphyrin aggregated nanostructures

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 679-693

  Vasilopoulou, Maria ^a   Douvas, Antonios M ^a   Georgiadou, Dimitra G ^a   Constantoudis, Vassilios ^a   Davazoglou, Dimitris ^a   Kennou, Stella ^b   Palilis, Leonidas C ^b   Daphnomili, Dimitra ^c   Coutsolelos, Athanassios G ^c   Argitis, Panagiotis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

aggregates; OLEDs; OPVs; porphyrins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900827761     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0428-9     Document Type: Article

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