Efficient green OLED devices with an emissive layer comprised of phosphor-doped carbazole/bis-oxadiazole side-chain polymer blends

Organic Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 492-496

  Kim, Sung Jin ^a   Zhang, Yadong ^a   Zuniga, Carlos ^a   Barlow, Stephen ^a   Marder, Seth R ^a   Kippelen, Bernard ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bis oxadiozole polymer; Electroluminescence; Organic light emitting diodes

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; POLYMER BLENDS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT MATERIALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORTING LAYER; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HOLE TRANSPORTING LAYERS; LUMINOUS EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; SIDE-CHAIN POLYMERS;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 78951493494     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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