Design and Synthesis of Pyrimidine-Based Iridium(III) Complexes with Horizontal Orientation for Orange and White Phosphorescent OLEDs

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 11007-11014

  Cui, Lin Song ^a   Liu, Yuan ^a   Liu, Xiang Yang ^a   Jiang, Zuo Quan ^a   Liao, Liang Sheng ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

horizontal orientation; iridium complex; orange emission; organic light emitting diodes; pyrimidine; warm white

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CITRUS FRUITS; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PHOSPHORESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM YIELD; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; IRIDIUM COMPLEX; ORANGE EMISSIONS; PHOSPHORESCENT DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; PYRIMIDINE; WARM-WHITE; WHITE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES;

IRIDIUM;

EID: 84930620830     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02541     Document Type: Article

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