Phosphorescence as a Probe of Exciton Formation and Energy Transfer in Organic Light Emitting Diodes

Physics of Organic Semiconductors

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 257-269

  Baldo, M ^a   Segal, M ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy transfer in blue phosphorescent OLEDs; Energy transfer in organic light emitting diodes; Exciton formation; Phosphorescence; Photophysics; Physics of organic semiconductors; Spin dependence of exciton formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891004882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/3527606637.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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