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Acknowledgements
S.F. thanks MEXT for KAKENHI No. 26870144, and E.N. thanks
MEXT for KAKENHI No. 15H05754. We thank K. Inoue for
spectroscopic measurements of film samples.
Keywords: boron • donor–acceptor type molecule • energy level
tuning • heterocycles • near-infrared absorption
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