Structure-photoluminescence correlation for two crystalline polymorphs of a thiophene-phenylene co-oligomer with bulky terminal substituents

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2171-2176

  Nicolini, Tommaso ^a   Famulari, Antonino ^a   Gatti, Teresa ^a,b   Martí Rujas, Javier ^b   Villafiorita Monteleone, Francesca ^c   Canesi, Eleonora V ^b   Meinardi, Francesco ^d   Botta, Chiara ^c   Parisini, Emilio ^b   Meille, Stefano Valdo ^a   Bertarelli, Chiara ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CH interaction; conjugated OLED material; parallel versus herringbone stack; photoluminescence QY; TD DFT excited states; thiophene phenylene co oligomer

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; EXCITED STATES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; THIOPHENE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLINE POLYMORPHS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCIES; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; PARALLEL VERSUS HERRINGBONE STACK; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; THIOPHENE-PHENYLENE CO-OLIGOMER;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 84903841060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500925r     Document Type: Article

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