Novel diarylborane-phenanthroimidazole hybrid bipolar host materials for high-performance red, yellow and green electrophosphorescent devices

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3211-3220

  Wang, Kai ^a   Wang, Shipan ^a   Wei, Jinbei ^a   Miao, Yang ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Wang, Yue ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Diarylborane; Host materials; Phenanthroimidazole; Phosphorescent devices

Indexed keywords

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOSPHORESCENCE; SOUND INSULATING MATERIALS;

BIPOLAR; DIARYLBORANE; HOST MATERIALS; PHENANTHROIMIDAZOLE; PHOSPHORESCENT DEVICES;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84907527800     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.08.062     Document Type: Article

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