Prospects and applications for organic light-emitting devices

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 236-243

  Burrows, Paul E ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^a   Thompson, Mark E ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EL light emitting; ETL electron transporting layer; HTL hole transporting layer; ITO indium tin oxide; OLED organic light emitting device; PL photoluminescence; SOLED stacked OLED; Tg glass transition temperature; TOLED transparent OLED

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000268463     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1359-0286(97)80072-1     Document Type: Article

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