Dewetting of an Organic Semiconductor Thin Film Observed in Real-time
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[*] Dr. S. Kowarik,[þ] Dr. A. Gerlach, Dr. S. Sellner Prof. F. Schreiber Institut f€ ur Angewandte Physik, Universit€ at T€ ubingen 72076 T€ ubingen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Dr. L. Cavalcanti ESRF, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz Boı̂te Postale 220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France [þ] Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, USA [**] Acknowledgement, We would like to thank O. Pierre-Louis for valuable comments and the EPSCR and DFG for funding.
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