Electron injection into organic semiconductor devices from high work function cathodes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 12730-12735

  Hoven, Corey V ^a   Yang, Renqiang ^a   Garcia, Andres ^a   Crockett, Victoria ^b   Heeger, Alan J ^a   Bazan, Guillermo C ^a   Nguyen, Thuc Quyen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge injection; Conjugated polyelectrolytes; Electron transporting layer; Ion motion; Polymer light emitting diodes

Indexed keywords

POLYELECTROLYTE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 51349163636     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806494105     Document Type: Article

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