Highly efficient blue organic light-emitting diodes based on carbene-metal-amides.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 Apr 2020
Historique:
received: 19 11 2019
accepted: 03 03 2020
entrez: 11 4 2020
pubmed: 11 4 2020
medline: 11 4 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Carbene-metal-amides are soluble and thermally stable materials which have recently emerged as emitters in high-performance organic light-emitting diodes. Here we synthesise carbene-metal-amide photoemitters with CF

Identifiants

pubmed: 32273497
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15369-8
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-15369-8
pmc: PMC7145843
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

1758

Subventions

Organisme : Royal Society
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Organisme : Royal Society
ID : UF130278
Organisme : Royal Society
ID : RG140472
Organisme : Royal Society
ID : URF\R1\180288
Organisme : Royal Society
ID : RGF\EA\181008
Organisme : EC | EC Seventh Framework Programm | FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013))
ID : 338944-GOCAT

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Auteurs

Patrick J Conaghan (PJ)

Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK.

Campbell S B Matthews (CSB)

Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK.

Florian Chotard (F)

School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Earlham Road, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.

Saul T E Jones (STE)

Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK.

Neil C Greenham (NC)

Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK.

Manfred Bochmann (M)

School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Earlham Road, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.

Dan Credgington (D)

Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK. dan.credgington@gmail.com.

Alexander S Romanov (AS)

School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Earlham Road, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. a.romanov@uea.ac.uk.

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