Design of non-periodic dielectric stacks for tailoring the emission of organic lighting-emitting diodes

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9715-9721

  Agrawal, Mukul ^a   Peumans, Peter ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINANCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PHOTONS;

ANGULAR EMISSION; DIELECTRIC STACKS; PHOTON OUTCOUPLING EFFICIENCY;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34547481537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009715     Document Type: Article

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