Low-Bandgap Near-IR Conjugated Polymers/Molecules for Organic Electronics

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 12633-12665

  Dou, Letian ^a,b   Liu, Yongsheng ^a,b   Hong, Ziruo ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a,b  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; MOLECULES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DEVICE APPLICATION; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; RESONANT STRUCTURES; SOLUTION PROCESSED POLYMERS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84949591373     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00165     Document Type: Article

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