Light extraction from surface plasmons and waveguide modes in an organic light-emitting layer by nanoimprinted gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 101, 2011, Pages A7-A19

  Frischeisen, Jörg ^a   Niu, Quan ^b   Abdellah, Alaa ^b   Kinzel, Jörg B ^a   Gehlhaar, Robert ^c   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^b   Adachi, Chihaya ^c   Lugli, Paolo ^b   Brütting, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONICS; FLUORESCENT DYES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PLASMONS;

GRATING STRUCTURES; HIGH QUALITY; LIGHT EXTRACTION; LIGHT-EMITTING THIN FILMS; LOW LIGHT; M-SCALE; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC FILMS; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; PERIODIC GRATINGS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; POLYMER RESIST; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN METAL LAYERS; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 78651359059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.0000A7     Document Type: Article

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