Energy-level alignment at model interfaces of organic electroluminescent devices studied by uv photoemission: Trend in the deviation from the traditional way of estimating the interfacial electronic structures

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-32

  Ishii, Hisao ^a,b,c   Sugiyama, Kiyoshi ^a   Yoshimura, Daisuke ^a   Ito, Eisuke ^a   Ouchi, Yukio ^a   Seki, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge injection; Electroluminescent devices; Electron spectroscopy; Organic compounds; Semiconductor metal interface

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; ESTIMATION; HYDROCARBONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANOMETALLICS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARGE INJECTION; ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES; TETRACYANOQUINODIMETHANE; TETRATHIANAPHTHACENE; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

LUMINESCENT DEVICES;

EID: 0031649175     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.669459     Document Type: Article

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