Electroluminescence color tuning by dye doping in organic light-emitting diodes

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-13

  Shoustikov, Andrei A ^a,b   You, Yujian ^a,c,d   Thompson, Mark E ^a,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MENDELEEV UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromaticity; Color tuning; Dexter; Doping; Emission energy; Energy transfer; F rster; Luminescent dye

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DYES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CHROMATICITY; COLOR TUNING; EMISSION ENERGY; FLUORESCENT DYE; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0031652954     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.669454     Document Type: Article

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