2D coherent charge transport in highly ordered conducting polymers doped by solid state diffusion

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 896-902

  Kang, Keehoon ^a   Watanabe, Shun ^a,b,c   Broch, Katharina ^a   Sepe, Alessandro ^d   Brown, Adam ^a   Nasrallah, Iyad ^a   Nikolka, Mark ^a   Fei, Zhuping ^e   Heeney, Martin ^e   Matsumoto, Daisuke ^f   Marumoto, Kazuhiro ^f   Tanaka, Hisaaki ^g   Kuroda, Shin Ichi ^g   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPIN HALL EFFECT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BASED CONJUGATED POLYMERS; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; LAMELLAR MICROSTRUCTURE; ORDERED MICROSTRUCTURES; POSITIVE MAGNETOCONDUCTANCE; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SOLID-STATE DIFFUSION; WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGES;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84966570178     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4634     Document Type: Article

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