Transparent conducting indium tin oxide thin film grown on flexible substrate by pulsed laser deposition for organic light-emitting devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4274, Issue , 2001, Pages 194-203

  Kim, H ^a   Horwitz, J S ^a   Kushto, G ^a   Kafafi, Z H ^a   Pique A ^a   Chrisey, D B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indium tin oxide (ITO); Organic light emitting devices (OLEDs); Polyethylene terephthalate (PET); Pulsed laser deposition (PLD)

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; EFFICIENCY; EXCIMER LASERS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ITO GLASS; LIGHT EMISSION; MICROELECTRONICS; ORGANIC LASERS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); OXYGEN; PLASTIC BOTTLES; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS; TIN OXIDES;

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL SHEET RESISTANCE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; INDIUM TIN OXIDE THIN FILMS; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 0012149953     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.432510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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