High-efficiency soft-contact-laminated polymer light-emitting devices with patterned electrodes

Advanced Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 2040-2045

  Lee, Tae Woo ^a   Zaumseil, Jana ^a   Kim, Seong Hyun ^b   Hsu, Julia W P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; LITHOGRAPHY; POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS (OTFT); PATTERNED ELECTRODES; SOFT-CONTACT LAMINATION (SCL); THERMAL EVAPORATION;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 11444259273     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400182     Document Type: Article

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