Solution-processed multilayer small-molecule light-emitting devices with high-efficiency white-light emission

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Aizawa, Naoya ^a   Pu, Yong Jin ^a   Watanabe, Michitake ^a   Chiba, Takayuki ^a   Ideta, Kazushige ^a   Toyota, Naoki ^a   Igarashi, Masahiro ^a   Suzuri, Yoshiyuki ^a   Sasabe, Hisahiro ^a   Kido, Junji ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; POLYMER; SOLVENT;

ALCOHOL; DESIGN METHOD; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; LIGHT INTENSITY; LUMINESCENCE; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; SOLVENT; SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84923314340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6756     Document Type: Article

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