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Title: Integer Charge Transfer and Hybridization at an Organic Semiconductor/Conductive Oxide Interface

Journal Article · · Journal of Physical Chemistry C
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jp512153b· OSTI ID:1220723

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials (CISSEM); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Contributing Organization:
Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, Jena, Germany; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology-KAUST, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
OSTI ID:
1220723
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5K00-64053
Journal Information:
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 119, Issue 9
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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