Bright coppertunities: Efficient OLED devices with copper(I)iodide-NHetPHOS-emitters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9183, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wallesch, Manuela ^a   Volz, Daniel ^b   Fléchon, Charlotte ^b   Zink, Daniel M ^b   Bräse, Stefan ^a,c   Baumann, Thomas ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CYNORA GMBH   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copper; NHetPHOS; OLED; Organic light emitting diode; Singlet harvesting; TADF; Thermally activated delayed fluorescence

Indexed keywords

COPPER; EFFICIENCY; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; IRIDIUM; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; MASS-MARKET APPLICATIONS; NHETPHOS; OLED; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; TADF; THERMALLY ACTIVATED DELAYED FLUORESCENCES; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ANNIHILATION;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84985898497     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2060499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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