Contact: Dr. Georg Heimel
georg.heimel@physik.hu-berlin.de
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Organic Electronics

Caption: Upon contact between the oxygen atoms protruding from the backbone and the metal, the molecules' internal structure changed in such a way that they lost their semiconducting properties and instead adopted the metallic properties of the surface.

Credit: Visualisation: Georg Heimel/HU Berlin

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