Management of singlet and triplet excitons for efficient white organic light-emitting devices

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7086, 2006, Pages 908-912

  Sun, Yiru ^a   Giebink, Noel C ^a   Kanno, Hiroshi ^a   Ma, Biwu ^b   Thompson, Mark E ^b   Forrest, Stephen R ^a,c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; INCANDESCENT LAMPS; LIGHTING; LUMINESCENT DEVICES; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CHARGE INJECTION; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; PHOSPHOR-DOPED DEVICES; PHOSPHORESCENT MOLECULES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

HARNESS;

EID: 33645881353     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04645     Document Type: Article

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