Light extraction from OLEDs for lighting applications through light scattering

Organic Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-299

  Bathelt, R ^a   Buchhauser, D ^b,c   Garditz C ^a,b   Paetzold, R ^b   Wellmann, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Light scattering; Lighting; OLED; Outcoupling enhancement; Raytracing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTIMIZATION; RAY TRACING;

LIGHT EXTRACTION; LIGHT OUTCOUPLING; SCATTERING FILMS;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 34248534251     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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