Concerted emission and local potentiometry of light-emitting electrochemical cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2673-2680

  Rodovsky, Deanna B ^a   Reid, Obadiah G ^a   Pingree, Liam S C ^a   Ginger, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Electrode; Electrogenerated chemiluminescence; Electroluminescence; Light emitting electrochemical cells (LECs); Operation mechanism; Organic electronic devices; Photoluminescence; Planar; Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM)

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY (AFM); ELECTROGENERATED CHEMILUMINESCENCE; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE LIGHTS; OPERATION MECHANISM; ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLANAR SCANNING;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMILUMINESCENCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTROLYTIC CELLS; ELECTRON DEVICES; ETHYLENE; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POTASSIUM; PROBES; SCANNING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

EID: 77952949479     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1003315     Document Type: Article

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