Understanding on absorption and fluorescence electronic transitions of carbazole-based conducting polymers: TD-DFT approaches

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-44

  Suramitr, Songwut ^a   Meeto, Wichanee ^a   Wolschann, Peter ^b   Hannongbua, Supa ^a  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbazole based; Density functional theory; Radiative lifetimes; TDDFT

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949150252     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-009-0655-4     Document Type: Article

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