Organic fluorophores exhibiting highly efficient photoluminescence in the solid state

Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1516-1531

  Shimizu, Masaki ^a,b   Hiyama, Tamejiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromophores; Fluorescence; Materials science; Molecular electronics; Photophysics

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION QUENCHING; CONDENSED PHASE; EFFICIENT EMISSION; EMITTING MATERIAL; EXCITED MOLECULES; FLUORESCENCE MATERIALS; INTENSE EMISSION; ORGANIC CHROMOPHORES; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC FLUOROPHORES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; ORGANIC SMALL MOLECULE; ORGANIC SOLID-STATE LASERS; ORGANIC SOLIDS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROCESS; PHOTOPHYSICS; SOLID-STATE EMISSIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT;

CHROMOPHORES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FLUOROPHORES; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC LASERS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLID STATE LASERS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 77954337266     PISSN: 18614728     EISSN: 1861471X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asia.200900727     Document Type: Review

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