Increased brightness and lifetime of polymer light-emitting diodes with polyaniline anodes

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-117

  Karg, S ^a   Scott, J C ^a   Salem, J R ^a   Angelopoulos, M ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge injection; Degradation; Diodes; Electroluminescence; Organic light emitting diodes; Poly(2 methoxy,5 (2 ethylhexyloxy) 1,4 phenylenevinylene); Polyaniline

Indexed keywords

ANODES; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXIDATION;

CHARGE INJECTION; CONTACT CURRENT; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; POLYANILINE; POLYMETHOXYETHYLHEXYLOXY PHENYLENEVINYLENE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0030170370     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-6779(96)03690-9     Document Type: Article

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