Photophysics of delocalized excitons in carbazole dendrimers

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 117, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 6270-6278

  Hwang, Inchan ^a   Selig, Ulrike ^b   Chen, Simon S Y ^c   Shaw, Paul E ^c   Brixner, Tobias ^b   Burn, Paul L ^c   Scholes, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRIMER GENERATION; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; INITIAL ANISOTROPY; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SECOND GENERATION; THIRD GENERATION; THREE GENERATIONS; TIME-RESOLVED ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; CHROMOPHORES; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 84880781776     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4006845     Document Type: Article

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