4-pyridyl-9,9′-spirobifluorenes as host materials for green and sky-blue phosphorescent OLEDs

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5790-5805

  Thiery, Sébastien ^a   Tondelier, Denis ^c   Declairieux, Céline ^c   Geffroy, Bernard ^c,d   Jeannin, Olivier ^a   Métivier, Rémi ^b   Rault Berthelot, Joëlle ^a   Poriel, Cyril ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d CNRS UMR 3299   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORESCENCE; PYRIDINE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BLUE PHOSPHORESCENT OLEDS; BLUE PHOSPHORESCENT ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; BUILDING BLOCKES; HIGH TRIPLET ENERGIES; PHOSPHORESCENT DOPANT; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; STRUCTURE-PROPERTIES RELATIONSHIPS; SYNTHETIC APPROACH;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84925250565     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp511385f     Document Type: Article

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