Laser thermal patterning of OLED materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5519, Issue , 2004, Pages 12-23

  Wolk, Martin B ^a   Baetzold, John ^a   Bellmann, Erika ^a   Hoffend Jr , Thomas R ^a   Lamansky, Sergey ^a   Li, Yingbo ^a   Roberts, Ralph R ^a   Savvateev, Vadim ^a   Staral, John S ^a   Tolbert, William A ^a  

^a 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATRIX OLED (AMOLED); FINE METAL MASK (FMM); LASER INDUCED THEMAL IMAGING (LITI);

CROSSLINKING; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SCREEN PRINTING; VAPOR PRESSURE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

INK JET PRINTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LITHOGRAPHY; SILK SCREEN PRINTING; VAPOR PRESSURE;

EID: 13444261228     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.563872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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