Photopolymerization studies of a light-emitting liquid crystal with methacrylate reactive groups for electroluminescence

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7050, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Woon, Kai L ^a   Liedtke, Alicia ^a   O'Neill, Mary ^a   Aldred, Matthew P ^a   Kitney, Stuart P ^a   Vlachos, Panagiotis ^a   Bruneau, Amaury ^a   Kelly, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FTIR; Liquid crystal; Methacrylate; OLED; Organic semiconductor; Polymer network; Reactive mesogen; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHROMOPHORES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LUMINESCENCE; MONOMERS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); OXYGEN; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; POWDERS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FTIR; METHACRYLATE; OLED; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; POLYMER NETWORK; REACTIVE MESOGEN;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 55549135715     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.794248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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