Hexagonal microlens array fabricated by direct laser writing and inductively coupled plasma etching on organic light emitting devices to enhance the outcoupling efficiency

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 974-978

  Kuang, Dengfeng ^a   Zhang, Xiaoliang ^a   Gui, Min ^a   Fang, Zhiliang ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CURRENT DENSITY; EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; GLASS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ITO GLASS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; ORGANIC LASERS; SUBSTRATES; TIN OXIDES;

DIRECT LASER WRITING; ENHANCED EMISSION; HEXAGONAL MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; INDIUM-TIN-OXIDE GLASS SUBSTRATES; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; THERMAL DEFORMATION;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA;

EID: 61449119896     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000974     Document Type: Article

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