Scientists / Open questions

Mark E. Thompson

Organic light-emitting materials; optoelectronic materials

10 questions

CVD-graphene transparent electrodes for organic photovoltaics: closing the transparency-sheet-resistance gap, the interface-limited series resistance, and long-term flexible-device durability at manufacturable scale
Quantitative validation of the metal-centered decay mechanism as a general design strategy for high-efficiency deep-blue cyclometalated Ir(III) phosphors
Ligand-scope mechanism of tris-cyclometalation and the microscopic origin of aggregation-controlled solid-state emission in octahedral cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes
Hole mobility, OLED device performance, and the origin of the low-energy emission band in asymmetric triaryldiamine hole-transport materials (Koene, Loy and Thompson, 1998)
Operational color stability and lifetime of single-dopant monomer-aggregate white electrophosphorescent OLEDs
Completing singlet and triplet exciton management in fluorescent/phosphorescent hybrid white organic light-emitting devices: stable high-utilization blue emitters, resonant energetic alignment, and predictive modeling of exciton losses
Mechanistic and energetic basis of fac⇄mer isomerization and mer-isomer nonradiative decay in tris-cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes
Exploiting the photoinduced Pt···Pt contraction of pyrazolate-bridged binuclear platinum(II) complexes: excited-state structure, $^3$ MMLCT collapse dynamics, device evaluation, and mechanical actuation
Complete triplet harvesting in phosphor-sensitized fluorescent organic light-emitting devices: suppressing Dexter-transfer and direct-formation losses to reach the full four-fold efficiency limit
Mechanism-resolved, quantitative prediction of annihilation-driven intrinsic luminance degradation in phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices

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CVD-graphene transparent electrodes for organic photovoltaics: closing the transparency-sheet-resistance gap, the interface-limited series resistance, and long-term flexible-device durability at manufacturable scale

Quantitative validation of the metal-centered decay mechanism as a general design strategy for high-efficiency deep-blue cyclometalated Ir(III) phosphors

Ligand-scope mechanism of tris-cyclometalation and the microscopic origin of aggregation-controlled solid-state emission in octahedral cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes

Hole mobility, OLED device performance, and the origin of the low-energy emission band in asymmetric triaryldiamine hole-transport materials (Koene, Loy and Thompson, 1998)

Operational color stability and lifetime of single-dopant monomer-aggregate white electrophosphorescent OLEDs

Completing singlet and triplet exciton management in fluorescent/phosphorescent hybrid white organic light-emitting devices: stable high-utilization blue emitters, resonant energetic alignment, and predictive modeling of exciton losses

Mechanistic and energetic basis of fac⇄mer isomerization and mer-isomer nonradiative decay in tris-cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes

Exploiting the photoinduced Pt···Pt contraction of pyrazolate-bridged binuclear platinum(II) complexes: excited-state structure, 3^33MMLCT collapse dynamics, device evaluation, and mechanical actuation

Complete triplet harvesting in phosphor-sensitized fluorescent organic light-emitting devices: suppressing Dexter-transfer and direct-formation losses to reach the full four-fold efficiency limit

Mechanism-resolved, quantitative prediction of annihilation-driven intrinsic luminance degradation in phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices

Exploiting the photoinduced Pt···Pt contraction of pyrazolate-bridged binuclear platinum(II) complexes: excited-state structure, $^3$ MMLCT collapse dynamics, device evaluation, and mechanical actuation