An efficient guest/host fluorescent energy transfer pair based on the naphthalimide skeleton, and its application in heavily-doped red organic light-emitting diodes

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 87-96

  Wang, Yi ^a   Zhou, Jie ^a   Wang, Xu ^b   Zheng, Xujun ^a   Lu, Zhiyun ^a,c   Zhang, Wei ^a   Chen, Yunqing ^a   Huang, Yan ^a   Pu, Xuemei ^a   Yu, Junsheng ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Sichuan University   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation emission enhancement; Energy transfer pair; Heavily doped OLEDs; Host; Naphthalimide; Red electroluminescence

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION-EMISSION-ENHANCEMENT; HEAVILY-DOPED OLEDS; HOST; NAPHTHALIMIDE; RED ELECTROLUMINESCENCE;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LUMINANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EID: 84884401454     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.08.021     Document Type: Article

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