Electrical characterization of polymer light-emitting diodes

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-112

  Blom, Paul W M ^a,b   De Jong, Marc J M ^a,c,d  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Charge transport; Device physics; Polymer light emitting diodes

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHARGE CARRIERS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; CURRENT DENSITY VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTRON CONDUCTION; HOLE MOBILITY; LANGEVIN RECOMBINATION; LIGHT GENERATION; POLYDIALKOCYPHENYLENE VINYLENE; POLYMER LIGHT EMITTING DIODE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0031652287     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.669477     Document Type: Article

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