Rational design of aggregation-induced emission luminogen with weak electron donor-acceptor interaction to achieve highly efficient undoped bilayer OLEDs

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 17215-17225

  Chen, Long ^a   Jiang, Yibin ^b   Nie, Han ^a   Hu, Rongrong ^a   Kwok, Hoi Sing ^b   Huang, Fei ^a   Qin, Anjun ^a   Zhao, Zujin ^a   Tang, Ben Zhong ^a,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c Institute of Molecular Functional Materials   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

aggregation induced emission; electron donor acceptor; hole transporter; organic light emitting diodes; tetraphenylethene

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

AGGREGATION-INDUCED EMISSIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; ELECTRON DONOR ACCEPTORS; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; HOLE-TRANSPORTERS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; TETRAPHENYLETHENE;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

EID: 84907906741     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am505036a     Document Type: Article

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