Automatically manufacturing and depositing organic semiconductor thin films with high molecular precision

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-method-tailor-made-semiconductor-thin.html

"rolling transferred Langmuir layer technique produces organic semiconductor molecule monolayers at air-water interfaces and transferred to solid substrate... reduced surface defects... can vary packing density via surface pressure during deposition... number of stacked molecular layers precisely adjusted... thin-film opto-electronics... organic photovoltaics generating electricity from sunlight, thin films converting sunlight into chemical energy, transistors, sensitive sensors"

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