Color-switchable electroluminescence of carbon dot light-emitting diodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 11234-11241

  Zhang, Xiaoyu ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Wang, Yu ^b   Kalytchuk, Sergii ^b   Kershaw, Stephen V ^b   Wang, Yinghui ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Zhang, Tieqiang ^a   Zhao, Yi ^a   Zhang, Hanzhuang ^a   Cui, Tian ^a   Wang, Yiding ^a   Zhao, Jun ^c,d   Yu, William W ^a,c,d   Rogach, Andrey L ^b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon dots; color switchable; current density; light emitting diode; voltage dependent

Indexed keywords

CARBON DOTS; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; MULTI-COLOR EMISSIONS; SOLUTION-BASED PROCESS; SWITCHABLE; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT;

CARBON; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84891364842     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405017q     Document Type: Article

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