Tabletop resonant infrared matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation of light-emitting organic thin films

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1022-1030

  Pate, Ryan ^a   Lantz, Kevin R ^a   Stiff Roberts, Adrienne D ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared matrix assisted pulsed evaporation(IR MAPLE); MAPLE; Poly 2 methoxy 5 (2 ethylhexyloxy) 1,4 (1 cyanovinylene) phenylene (MEH CN PPV); Poly 2 methoxy 5 (2 ethylhexyloxy) 1,4 phenylene vinylene (MEH PPV)

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EMULSIFICATION; EVAPORATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOISTURE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHENOLS; PHOTORESISTS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TARGETS; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS; TOLUENE; VAPOR DEPOSITION; VAPORS; XYLENE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURES; DEPOSITED FILMS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; INFRARED MATRIX; INFRARED MATRIX-ASSISTED PULSED EVAPORATION(IR-MAPLE); LASER FLUENCES; LIGHT-EMITTING POLYMER; MAPLE; MEH-PPV; METHOXY; O-XYLENE; OPTICAL BEHAVIORS; OPTICAL-; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; PHENYLENE VINYLENE; RMS SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURES; TETRAHYDROFURAN;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 48949086720     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.915625     Document Type: Article

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