OLED Displays on Plastic

Flexible Flat Panel Displays

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 285-312

  Hildner, Mark L ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOLED; Flat panel display (FPD) technologies; Highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO); Indium tin oxide (ITO); Lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO); Organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology; Passive matrix OLED display (PMOLED); PLED basics; Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33144469217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470870508.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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