Organic light-emitting diodes on solution-processed graphene transparent electrodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-48

  Wu, Junbo ^a   Agrawal, Mukul ^a   Becerril, Héctor A ^a   Bao, Zhenan ^a   Liu, Zunfeng ^b   Chen, Yongsheng ^b   Peumans, Peter ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Graphene; OLED; Outcoupling; Solution processed; Transparent conductor

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; CONTROL DEVICE; FUNCTIONALIZED; GRAPHENES; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; METAL CATHODES; MODEL PREDICTION; ORGANIC MATERIALS; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; QUARTZ SUBSTRATE; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; TRANSPARENT ANODES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

ANODES; CONTROL; DIODES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; INDIUM; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SHEET RESISTANCE; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 75749135283     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900728d     Document Type: Article

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