Operation characteristics and degradation of organic electroluminescent devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 40-48

  Sato, Yoshiharu ^a,b,c   Ichinosawa, Shoko ^a,d,e   Kanai, Hiroyuki ^a,c,f  

^a MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Society of Polymer Science   (Japan)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doping; Dyes; Electroluminescent materials devices; Flat panel displays; Light emitting diodes; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DYES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RELIABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; STABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THIN FILMS;

FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES;

LUMINESCENT DEVICES;

EID: 0031649176     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.669464     Document Type: Article

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