Fluorescent red-emitting BODIPY oligofluorene star-shaped molecules as a color converter material for visible light communications

Star-shaped organic semiconductors with boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) cores are color-conversion materials for blue LED-based visible light communications. The difference between 0 and 1 bits is resolved in colour-converted data links at 100 Mb s−1. The BODIPY modulation bandwidth is eight times higher than that measured using conventional phosphor color converters.

Citation

Sajjad , M T , Manousiadis , P P , Orofino , C , Cortizo-Lacalle , D , Kanibolotsky , A L , Rajbhandari , S , Amarasinghe , C D A , Chun , H , Faulkner , G , O'Brien , D C , Skabara , P J , Turnbull , G A & Samuel , I D W 2015 , ' Fluorescent red-emitting BODIPY oligofluorene star-shaped molecules as a color converter material for visible light communications ' , Advanced Optical Materials , vol. 3 , no. 4 , pp. 536-540 . https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201400424

Publication

Advanced Optical Materials

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201400424

ISSN

2195-1071

Type

Journal article

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(c) 2014 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The authors thank EPSRC for fi nancial support from the UP-VLC project grant (EP/K00042X/1). P.J.S. and I.D.W.S. also acknowledge a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.