The origin of green emission in polyfluorene-based conjugated polymers: On-chain defect fluorescence

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 597-601

  Romaner, Lorenz ^a,b   Pogantsch, Alexander ^b   De Freitas, Patricia Scandiucci ^c   Scherf, Ullrich ^c   Gaal, Martin ^a,b   Zojer, Egbert ^b,d   List, Emil J W ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

POLYMER CHAINS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0042380162     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200304360     Document Type: Article

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