Multilayer transparent electrode for organic light-emitting diodes: Tuning its optical characteristics

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3404-3414

  Cho, Hyunsu ^a   Yun, Changhun ^a   Yoo, Seunghyup ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EMISSION SPECTRUMS; LAMBERTIAN; LUMINOUS EFFICIENCY; MICROCAVITY EFFECTS; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL POWER; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TARGET APPLICATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 77149136061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003404     Document Type: Article

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