Improvement of the light extraction efficiency of top-emitting organic light-emitting diodes by a two-dimensional diffraction layer fabricated using self-assembled nanoparticles

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 31, 2009, Pages 5889-5896

  Nakanishi, Tsutomu ^a   Hiraoka, Toshiro ^a   Fujimoto, Akira ^a   Matake, Shigeru ^a   Okutani, Satoshi ^b   Sano, Hiroshi ^b   Asakawa, Koji ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Ishikawa Plant   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; FABRICATION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LUMINANCE; MONOLAYERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; EMBEDDED PARTICLE MONOLAYERS; LIGHT-EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; NANOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); SELF ASSEMBLED NANOPARTICLES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); TWO DIMENSIONAL DIFFRACTION;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 70449623659     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.005889     Document Type: Article

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