Imaging Joule heating in a conjugated-polymer light-emitting diode using a scanning thermal microscope

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 4890-4892

  Boroumand, F A ^a   Voigt, M ^a   Lidzey, D G ^a   Hammiche, A ^b   Hill, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Electronic Engineering ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; CORRELATION METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SCANNING; SILICON NITRIDE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

JOULE HEATING; SCANNING THERMAL MICROSCOPES; SPATIAL INHOMOGENEITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 3042775138     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1762988     Document Type: Article

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