Polarons in π-Conjugated Polymers: Anderson or Landau?

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 615-620

  Barford, William ^a   Marcus, Max ^a,b   Tozer, Oliver Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; CONDON APPROXIMATION; DENSITY MATRIX RENORMALIZATION GROUP METHODS; FLUORESCENCE DEPOLARIZATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; POLY(P-PHENYLENEVINYLENE); SELF LOCALIZATION;

POLARONS;

EID: 84956966148     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08764     Document Type: Article

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