Bilaterally extended perylenes were synthesized, characterized, and used to create organic light-emitting devices. A detailed investigation of the electronic and optical properties, and a comparison of perylene derivatives and compounds with unilaterally and bilaterally extended aromatic cores, reveal unexpected changes of the absorption spectrum, which are in agreement with simulations based on DFT.
Keywords: absorption; density functional calculations; electroluminescence; perylenes; semiconductors.
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