Achieving full-color organic light-emitting devices for lightweight, flat-panel displays

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1188-1203

  Burrows, P E ^a   Gu, G ^a   Bulovic V ^a   Shen, Z ^a   Forrest, S R ^a   Thompson, M E ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS;

FULL COLOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES (OLED);

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 0031213256     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.605453     Document Type: Article

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