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Platinum complexes as phosphorescent emitters in highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes

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Applications of platinum complexes as phosphorescent emitters in high efficiency organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) were shortly discussed in this paper. Key recent studies on highly efficient blue, green, red and white-phosphorescent OLEDs based on Pt complexes are presented in terms of efficiency and color quality.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, P. R. China

    Yan-fang Lü  (吕燕芳), Min-yan Zhang  (张民艳), Yu-zhu Shang  (尚玉柱) & Hong Xu  (徐 红)

  2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Display and System Application (Shanghai University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 200072, P. R. China

    Bin Wei  (魏 斌) & Zi-xing Wang  (王子兴)

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Project supported by the Development Foundation for Electronic and Information Industry (2010), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant No.10DZ1140502), the Mechatronics Engineering Innovation Group Project from Shanghai Education Commission, and the Key Laboratory of Advanced Display and System Applications (Shanghai University), Ministry of Education, China (Grant No.P201004)

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Lü, Yf., Zhang, My., Shang, Yz. et al. Platinum complexes as phosphorescent emitters in highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes. J. Shanghai Univ.(Engl. Ed.) 15, 256–261 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11741-011-0733-3

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