Temperature-dependent recombination in polymer composite light-emitting diodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 26, 1998, Pages 3911-3913

  Bozano, L ^a   Tuttle, S E ^a   Carter, S A ^a   Brock, P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRAPS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION EFFICIENCY; POLYMER COMPOSITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; RADIANCE VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0032576491     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122933     Document Type: Article

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