A new family of polyfluorene copolymers for light emitting devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4464, Issue , 2002, Pages 42-48

  Holmes, Andrew B ^a   Sano, Takeshi ^a   Fischmeister, Cedric ^a   Frey, J ^a   Hennecke, Ulrich ^a   Tuan, Chi Shen ^a   Chuah, Beng Sim ^a   Ma, Yuguang ^a   Martin, Rainer E ^a   Rees, Ian D ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Feeder, Neil R ^a   Bond, Andrew D ^a   Cacialli, Franco ^b   Lim, Shuang Fang ^b   Friend, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copolymers; Electroluminescence; Light emitting diodes; Monomer synthesis; Photoluminescence; Poly(phenylene vinylene)s; Polyfluorenes

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ESTERS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MONOMERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYCONDENSATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

POLYFLUORENES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 18644368828     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457502     Document Type: Article

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