Application of aluminum, copper and gold electrodes in a.c. polymer light-emitting devices

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-104

  Wang, H L ^a   Huang, F ^a   MacDiarmid, A G ^a   Wang, Y Z ^b   Gebler, D D ^b   Epstein, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Copper; Devices; Diodes; Electroluminescence; Gold; Polyaniline

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COPPER; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GOLD; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

AC POLYMER LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; APPLIED VOLTAGE; ELECTROEMISSIVE POLYMERS; HOLE INJECTION POLYMERS; POLYANILINE; POLYANILINE INSULATOR LAYERS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0030166950     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-6779(96)03688-0     Document Type: Article

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