Simulating Electronic and Optical Processes in Multilayer Organic Light-Emitting Devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 723-731

  Ruhstaller, Beat ^a,b   Beierlein, Tilman ^a   Riel, Heike ^a   Karg, Siegfried ^a   Scott, J Campbell ^c   Riess, Walter ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical and optical simulation; Optimization; Organic light emitting devices (OLEDs)

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; EXCITONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTILAYERS; POISSON EQUATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE MODELS; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES (OLED);

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0347537745     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.818852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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