A nanomesh scaffold for supramolecular nanowire optoelectronic devices

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 900-906

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhong, Xiaolan ^a   Pavlica, Egon ^b   Li, Songlin ^a   Klekachev, Alexander ^a   Bratina, Gvido ^b   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^a   Orgiu, Emanuele ^a   Samorì, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCAFFOLDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; EXCITON GENERATION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; HIGH SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; ORGANIC NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOWIRES;

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOMESH; NANOWIRE; PERYLENE; SUPRAMOLECULAR NANOWIRE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84979598459     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.125     Document Type: Article

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