Sub-micron phase coexistence in small-molecule organic thin films revealed by infrared nano-imaging

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Westermeier, Christian ^a,b   Cernescu, Adrian ^a,c   Amarie, Sergiu ^c   Liewald, Clemens ^a   Keilmann, Fritz ^a   Nickel, Bert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NANOSYSTEMS INITIATIVE MUNICH NIM   (Germany)

^c Neaspec GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITE;

BIOFILM; CRYSTALLIZATION; HOMOGENEITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OXIDE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; FILM; GRAIN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERPHASE; MORPHOLOGY; NANOIMAGING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84902480006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5101     Document Type: Article

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