Patterning electroluminescent materials with feature sizes as small as 5 μm using elastomeric membranes as masks for dry lift-off

Advanced Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 546-552

  Duffy, David C ^a   Jackman, Rebecca J ^a   Vaeth, Kathleen M ^b   Jensen, Klavs F ^b   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DYES; ELASTOMERS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; EVAPORATION; LUMINESCENT DEVICES; MASKS; SILICONES; SUBSTRATES;

DRY LIFT-OFF PROCEDURE; ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS; PATTERN TRANSFER; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE;

POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

EID: 0032626097     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(199905)11:7<546::AID-ADMA546>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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