Triplet excitation scavenging in films of conjugated polymers

ChemPhysChem

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1071-1076

  Schols, Sarah ^a,b   Kadashchuk, Andrey ^a,c   Heremans, Paul ^a,b   Helfer, Anke ^d   Scherf, Ullrich ^d  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy conversion; Fluorescence; Phosphorescence; Polymers; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULES; ORGANIC LASERS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; POLYMERS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; THIN FILMS;

CYCLOOCTATETRAENE; DELAYED FLUORESCENCE; DOPANT MOLECULES; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TRIPLET ENERGY TRANSFER; TRIPLET EXCITATION; TRIPLET LIFETIMES;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 66449109123     PISSN: 14394235     EISSN: 14397641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200900054     Document Type: Article

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