Flexible phosphorescent OLEDs on metal foil for military and commercial applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5801, Issue , 2005, Pages 132-141

  Chwang, Anna ^a   Lu, JengPing ^b   Shih, Chinwen ^b   Tung, Yeh Jiun ^a   Hewitt, Richard ^a   Hack, Michael ^a   Ho, Jackson ^b   Brown, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Active matrix; Flexible; Metal foil; OLED; Organic light emitting; Phosphorescent; Poly Si; Top emission

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATRIX; FLEXIBLE; OLED; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING; TOP-EMISSION;

ENCAPSULATION; EXCIMER LASERS; METAL FOIL; PHOSPHORESCENCE; POLYSILICON; STAINLESS STEEL;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 27544457659     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.603634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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