Opto-electronic properties of poly (fluorene) co-polymer red light-emitting devices on flexible plastic substrate

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1562-1569

  Hong, Yongtaek ^a   Kanicki, Jerzy ^b  

^a Display Science and Technology Ctr   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SUBSTRATES;

HIGH OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; HOLE INJECTION LAYER; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYER; LIGHT EMISSIVE LAYERS; MULTILAYER STRUCTURE; ORGANIC POLYMER RED LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES (PLEDS); PLASTIC SUBSRATE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 5444232522     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2004.835161     Document Type: Article

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