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Polarized Luminescence from Aligned Samples of Nematogenic Lanthanide Complexes
Author(s) -
Galyametdinov Y. G.,
Knyazev A. A.,
Dzhabarov V. I.,
Cardinaels T.,
Driesen K.,
GörllerWalrand C.,
Binnemans K.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200701714
Subject(s) - mesophase , liquid crystal , luminescence , materials science , lanthanide , europium , phase (matter) , atmospheric temperature range , analytical chemistry (journal) , crystallography , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , chemistry , meteorology , ion , physics
Lanthanide β‐diketonate complexes are found to exhibit a smectic A and a nematic phase over a broad temperature range. Polarized luminescence is observed for the europium(III) complex dissolved in the nematic liquid‐crystal mixture E7 and for the aligned vitrified mesophase.