Spin-orbit coupling routes and OLED performance - Studies of blue-light emitting Ir(III) and Pt(II) complexes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6655, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Rausch, Andreas F ^a   Homeier, Herbert H H ^a   Djurovich, Peter I ^b   Thompson, Mark E ^b   Yersin, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3LC states; 3MLCT states; Firpic; Ir(4,6 dFppy)2(pic); OLED performance; Phosphorescence; Pt(4,6 dFppy)(acac); Spin orbit coupling routes and geometry; Triplet emitters; Zero field splitting

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGANDS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING ROUTES AND GEOMETRY; TRIPLET EMITTERS; ZERO-FIELD SPLITTING;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 42149152103     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.731225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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