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Acknowledgement
We acknowledge the financial support from the Na-
tional Natural Science Foundation of China (51273053),
the Guangdong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished
Young Scholar (No. 2014A030306035), the Guangdong
Innovative Research Team Program of China (No.
201101C0105067115), the National Basic Research
Program of China (973 Program, Nos. 2015CB655000
and 2013CB834702) and the Fundamental Research
Funds for the Central Universities.
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Figure 3 (A) EL spectra, (B) current density-voltage-luminance
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