Visible-light sensitisation of Tb(III) luminescence using a blue-emitting Ir(III) complex as energy-donor
1Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7HF, UK.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 17, 2010
Abstract:
In Ir(III)/Tb(III) dyads in which the excited state energy of the Ir(III) unit lies above 22,000 cm(-1), visible-light excitation of the Ir(III) chromophore results in sensitised emission from Tb(III) following Ir → Tb energy-transfer.
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