Improvement of amplified spontaneous emission performance by doping tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq3) in dye-doped polymer thin films

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2320-2324

  Lu, Wu ^a,b   You, Han ^a   Fang, Junfeng ^a   Dongge, Ma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMER FILMS; POLYSTYRENES;

FOSTER ENERGY TRANSFER; ORGANIC DIODE LASERS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 34250758628     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002320     Document Type: Article

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