Highly efficient hybrid warm white organic light-emitting diodes using a blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter: Exploiting the external heavy-atom effect

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Dongdong ^a   Duan, Lian ^a   Zhang, Yunge ^a   Cai, Minghan ^a   Zhang, Deqiang ^a   Qiu, Yong ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

External heavy atom effect; Hybrid white OLEDs; Thermally activated delayed fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE; HYBRID MATERIALS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOSPHORS; QUENCHING;

EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HEAVY ATOM EFFECTS; HYBRID WHITE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; THERMALLY ACTIVATED DELAYED FLUORESCENCES; TRIPLET QUENCHING; WHITE OLEDS; WHITE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84929074304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2015.5     Document Type: Article

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