Charge transfer absorption and emission at ZnO/organic interfaces

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 500-504

  Piersimoni, Fortunato ^a   Schlesinger, Raphael ^b   Benduhn, Johannes ^c   Spoltore, Donato ^c   Reiter, Sina ^a   Lange, Ilja ^a   Koch, Norbert ^b   Vandewal, Koen ^c   Neher, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERFACE STATES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUANTUM THEORY; RED SHIFT; ZINC OXIDE;

CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; CHARGE-TRANSFER ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONTRIBUTION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION;

OXIDE MINERALS;

EID: 84922487973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz502657z     Document Type: Article

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