Long-lived exciplex formation and delayed exciton emission in bulk heterojunction blends of silole derivative and polyfluorene copolymer: The role of morphology on exciplex formation and charge separation

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 7794-7799

  Benson Smith, Jessica J ^a   Wilson, Joanne ^a   Dyer Smith, Clare ^a   Mouri, Kazuhiro ^b   Yamaguchi, Shigehiro ^b   Murata, Hideyuki ^c   Nelson, Jenny ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUENCHING; XYLENE;

BLEND FILMS; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; DELAYED FLUORESCENCE; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; EXCIPLEX; EXCIPLEX EMISSION; EXCITON EMISSION; P-XYLENE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; POLYFLUORENE COPOLYMER; PRISTINE MATERIALS; RED-SHIFTED; SILOLE DERIVATIVES; SINGLET STATE;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 66549108213     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp808671f     Document Type: Article

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