Computer Modeling: Energy-level alignment at organic heterointerfaces

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Oehzelt, Martin ^a,b   Akaike, Kouki ^b   Koch, Norbert ^a,b   Heimel, Georg ^b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

COMPUTER MODELING; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITAL ENERGIES; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC INTERFACES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85022128144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501127     Document Type: Article

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