Observation of Unusual, Highly Conductive Grain Boundaries in High‐Mobility Phase Separated Organic Semiconducting Blend Films Probed by Lateral‐Transport Conductive‐AFM. (24th May 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hunter, Simon; Anthopoulos, Thomas D.
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 25:Number 31(2013)
• Page Start: 4320
• Page End: 4326
• Publication Date: 2013-05-24
• Subjects: Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201300020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

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